Allen has enjoyed working with the Glasgow cast, some of whom are coming to the Rossini roles relatively fresh. Locally-born Karen Cargill sings Rosina in her Scottish Opera debut - although she's well-enough known to Scottish audiences on the concert stage. Even Dutch baritone Thomas Oliemans is making his UK debut as Figaro in this Scottish Opera season opener.
"It's enabled us to go back to first principles - to reconstruct Beaumarchais", he says. "So much of Barber is heavily assumed. The first thing you have to do is to start from scratch".
From an old hand, then, we should expect fresh ideas. More Alex Ferguson than Graeme Souness, perhaps?
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