Across East Lothian, new housing developments now extend Edinburgh’s commuter belt, but my Dunbar-born mother would have recognised the market town dynamic of Benjamin Britten’s Loxford, the setting of his comic opera Albert Herring, making it a very suitable Scottish Opera choice for the Lammermuir festival.
Daisy Evans’s new production mixes nods to the postwar period of the work’s conception with modern dress in the garish costuming, while Kat Heath’s village hall design sits so well in Haddington Corn Exchange it was difficult to see the joins.
