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Music Matters: Scottish Opera at 60, Jan Carson, Felix Yaniewicz exhibition

Scottish Opera at 60, Jan Carson, Felix Yaniewicz exhibition

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Scottish Opera at 60, writer Jan Carson, and an exhibition on violinist Felix Yaniewicz.

Kate Molleson marks Scottish Opera's sixtieth anniversary, previews an exhibition about Polish-Lithuanian violinist Felix Yaniewicz in Edinburgh, and talks to writer Jan Carson.

As Scottish Opera celebrates its sixtieth anniversary, Kate Molleson talks to key figures and artists from the company about its past, present and future including the company's General Director Alex Reedijk, Emerging Artist Lea Shaw, critic Ken Walton and conductor Donald Runnicles.
Kate speaks to Josie Dixon, curator of the exhibition ‘Music and Migration in Georgian Edinburgh’ which tells the story of Felix Yaniewicz, a Polish-Lithuanian virtuoso violinist who founded the first ever Edinburgh Festival, and to the satirist, writer and director Armando Iannucci who is giving a talk about music, migration and Scotland.
Novelist, short-story writer, and community arts worker Jan Carson talks to Kate about her new collaboration with the Ulster Orchestra and children from Carniny Primary School in Ballymena, County Antrim.
And as music venues across the UK prepare for a summer of live music free of covid restrictions, we look at the extent to which audiences are returning to the concert halls and what impact that has on a venue’s programming. Kate speaks to David Dodd of the Hall for Cornwall, Jane Ann Purdy, co-director of the Soundhouse concerts which take place at the Traverse in Edinburgh, and Neil Bennison from the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham.

Producer: Graham Rogers

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