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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.
Scottish Opera’s Community Choir were not going to let the Coronavirus stop them from singing, as they came together online to ensure their practice could continue.
Fresh from its European premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival last summer, we were delighted to take Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves to the Adelaide Festival earlier this month.
Scottish Opera trucks, normally used for moving sets from our shows to and from theatres, have been repurposed to help restock supermarkets during the Coronavirus outbreak.
