Opera Scotland

Elijah 2025Dundee Choral Union

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Mendelssohn's superb drama did seem to be losing popularity a few years ago, but it seems now to be staging a well-deserved recovery.  Hot on the heels of the closing concert at the Edinburgh Festival, with Christopher Maltman, here is a second performance.  It is fifteen years since the Choral last did it - and the well-chosen protagonist then, Australian Derek Welton, is now an established Wagnerian.