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Touring in 2025

Opera Highlights

Bringing opera to 24 venues across Scotland

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25 January - 22 March 2025

Touring to Cumbernauld, Kelso, Langholm, Clydebank, Tain, Fochabers, Midmar, Troon, Stranraer, Peebles, Mid Yell, Lerwick, Killin, Craignish, Strontian, Dunoon, Castlebay, Tarbert, Ullapool, Durness, Thurso, Campbeltown, Anstruther, and Dundee.

This season’s snappy, playful show by director Rebecca Meltzer and designer Kenneth MacLeod explores and celebrates Scotland’s rich landscape. The operatic snapshots, curated for the first time by Fiona MacSherry, Scottish Opera’s Head of Music, form vignettes taking place at the country’s many varied train stations – places of greetings and goodbyes, reunions and setting off on new adventures, where all walks of life can coexist and interact equally.

Singers Robert Forrest and Scottish Opera’s 2024/25 Emerging Artists Ross Cumming, Chloe Harris, and Kira Kaplan bring classic operatic excerpts by Beethoven, Bizet, Handel, Donizetti, Tchaikovsky, and more to life under the musical direction of Joseph Beesley in this original piano-accompanied production.

Alongside Opera Highlights, Scottish Opera will also run 10 secondary school workshops in Fochabers, Stranraer, Lerwick, Mid Yell, Oban, Castlebay, Tarbert, Ullapool, Thurso and Anstruther, and four community workshops on 'How to stage an opera' in Tain, Lerwick, Tarbert, and Dundee. 

Kindly supported by Friends of Scottish Opera and JTH Charitable Trust

Part of Scottish Opera's 2024/25 Season

Show Details

Running time:
Approximately 2 hours including a 20-minute interval

Programmes: 
Available for free on the day of performance or online here >>

Ticket price:
£20

Concessions:
£6 tickets for Under 26s
Free tickets for essential companions

Cast & Creatives

Performers
Ross Cumming*, Robert Forrest, Chloe Harris*, Kira Kaplan*
*2024/25 Emerging Artists

Music Director/Pianist
Joseph Beesley

Director
Rebecca Meltzer

Designer
Kenneth MacLeod

Explore our programme

Our Opera Highlights Spring 2025 programme will be available to collect on the day of each performance. 

You can also view or download our full programme below:

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In Rehearsals

Chloe Harris And Kira Kaplan In Rehearsals For Opera Highlights. Credit Sally Jubb..

Chloe Harris And Kira Kaplan In Rehearsals For Opera Highlights. Credit Sally Jubb.

Opera Highlights Director Rebecca Meltzer And Kira Kaplan In Rehearsals. Credit Sally Jubb..

Opera Highlights Director Rebecca Meltzer And Kira Kaplan In Rehearsals. Credit Sally Jubb.

Opera Highlights Music Director And Pianist, Joseph Beesley, And Director Rebecca Meltzer In Rehearsals. Credit Sally Jubb..

Opera Highlights Music Director And Pianist, Joseph Beesley, And Director Rebecca Meltzer In Rehearsals. Credit Sally Jubb.

Robert Forrest And Chloe Harris In Rehearsals For Opera Highlights. Credit Sally Jubb..

Robert Forrest And Chloe Harris In Rehearsals For Opera Highlights. Credit Sally Jubb.

Robert Forrest And Chloe Harris In Rehearsals For Opera Highlights. Credit Sally Jubb.. (1)

Robert Forrest And Chloe Harris In Rehearsals For Opera Highlights. Credit Sally Jubb.

Robert Forrest And Ross Cumming In Rehearsals For Opera Highlights. Credit Sally Jubb..

Robert Forrest And Ross Cumming In Rehearsals For Opera Highlights. Credit Sally Jubb.

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