Touring in 2025
Opera HighlightsBringing opera to 24 venues across Scotland
25 January - 22 March 2025
Touring to Cumbernauld, Kelso, Langholm, Clydebank, Tain, Fochabers, Midmar, Troon, Stranraer, Peebles, Mid Yell, Lerwick, Campbeltown, Craignish, Strontian, Dunoon, Castlebay, Tarbert, Ullapool, Durness, Thurso, Killin, 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 11 school and four community workshops in Tain, Fochabers, Troon, Stranraer, Lerwick, Mid Yell, Campbeltown, Lochgilphead, Castlebay, Tarbert, Ullapool, Thurso, Anstruther, and Dundee.
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Kindly supported by Friends of Scottish Opera and JTH Charitable Trust
Part of Scottish Opera's 2024/25 Season
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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