Music review: Scottish Opera: Silvano
Silvano doesn’t get much mention in the history books. Mascagni wrote it five years after his single most famous opera, Cavalleria Rusticana. It never took on, lacking the fast-moving thrills and spills of the earlier work. Theatrically, I guess, it belongs in sleepy hollow. But there’s merit in its music, which made this concert performance by Scottish Opera probably the best way to experience it.