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Uprising,
Usher Hall, Edinburgh
ONE of the saddest things about my Friday night watching the opera Uprising at the Usher Hall with the RSNO, was that the auditorium was barely half full. It was fitting considering the theme that the planet is dying and not enough people are listening.
Uprising is the work of composer Jonathan Dove. It is the story of a young teen, Lola (Ffion Edwards), who, like many young people today, is disturbed by the climate disaster we are facing. She stops wanting to go to school. What is the point if there is no future?
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