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Whilst we may be unable at the moment to bring our productions to the stage, audiences can now view photos, programme articles and film footage from some of our most popular shows over the years in our new ‘Spotlight on…’ feature on our website.
Marian Colquhoun, our Head of Props, has established a group called SuperVISORS, consisting of ten volunteers who are working unpaid in their spare time, to make over 2000 disposable visors a week for the NHS.
Anthropocene, our gripping work commissioned from composer Stuart MacRae and librettist Louise Welsh, triumphed in the Large Scale New Work category at this year’s Scottish Awards for New Music.
Our wardrobe department, led by Lorna Price, are working flat out, to make hundreds of sets of scrubs which will be distributed by the group For the Love of Scrubs to frontline NHS workers. GP practices, hospitals and other types of practice can request scrubs be sent directly to them at https://www.fortheloveofscrubs.scot/need-scrubs. Please share this link to those who need it.
Director Anthony Besch’s powerful production of Puccini’s operatic thriller Tosca received no fewer than its ninth revival at Scottish Opera last Autumn. The opera was famously dubbed a ‘shabby little shocker’ by critic Joseph Kerman, partly because of the appalling actions of sadistic chief of police Baron Scarpia, sung by baritone Roland Wood in last October’s staging. We caught up with Roland, as he looks back on the pleasures of singing a villain.
