Beyond Our Shores:
A Night at the Chinese Opera
From the Royal Concert Hall, continuing a week-long concert series from Glasgow which focuses on the influence of non-western sounds on the European and American classical tradition.
Judith Weir 's A Night at the Chinese Opera is a fast-moving opera full of colour and exotic sounds, It is set in the time of Kubla Khan , a time of wars and earthquakes as well as intrigues and betrayals.
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Andrew Parrott