OPERAVISION TO STREAM SCOTTISH OPERA’S DOUBLE BILL OF TRIAL BY JURY & A MATTER OF MISCONDUCT!

The sprightly double bill of our new staging of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial by Jury and the world premiere of Emma Jenkins and Toby Hession’s A Matter of Misconduct! will be available to watch on OperaVision from 3 August for six months.

The production opened in May at Theatre Royal Glasgow, before touring to Festival Theatre Edinburgh and Opera Holland Park, with Trial by Jury directed by John Savournin, and A Matter of Misconduct! directed by Laura Attridge. Both operas are conducted by Toby Hession, and designs are by takis.

The film of the double bill was produced for the freeview streaming platform OperaVision by Gemma Dixon of Maestro Broadcasting, who also directed the A Matter of Misconduct! film, with Jonathan Haswell directing the film of Trial by Jury. Audio production was by Floating Earth Ltd., and the recording was made at a Festival Theatre Edinburgh performance.

First performed in 1875, Trial by Jury (a co-production by us D'Oyly Carte Opera and Opera Holland Park), was the first major hit from the partnership of WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. This production, which marks 150 years of Gilbert & Sullivan’s collaboration with D’Oyly Carte Opera, formed upon the first performance of Trial by Jury, has a fabulous comic cast which includes Richard Suart (The Gondoliers & Utopia, Limited 2021), Jamie MacDougall (Albert Herring 2024) and Emerging Artists Kira Kaplan (Opera Highlights 2025), Chloe Harris (Opera Highlights 2025) and Edward Jowle (The Makropulos Affair 2025).

It is performed alongside Emma Jenkins and Toby Hession’s A Matter of Misconduct!, a new co-commission and co-production by us and D'Oyly Carte Opera.  

Following the crowd-pleasing political satire In Flagrante, also by Jenkins and Hession, which premiered on the 2023/24 Opera Highlights tour, A Matter of Misconduct! tells the story of how when a scandal threatens to break about the front runner in a bloody leadership campaign, a lawyer is needed to prevent information from reaching the press. Jamie MacDougall stars in this daring new operetta, alongside Emerging Artists Ross Cumming, Kira Kaplan, Chloe Harris and Edward Jowle.

Launched in 2017, OperaVision – curated by Opera Europa, the European association of opera companies and festivals – streams performances from all over the world, allowing viewers to watch productions from the greatest European opera houses from the comfort of their own home. As well as full-length performances shown with subtitles, it features extracts, interviews and behind the scenes footage. 

Trial by Jury & A Matter of Misconduct! are available to watch from 6pm BST (7pm CET) on 3 August at https://operavision.eu/en