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How to stage an operaAn interactive session led by theatre-maker Flora Emily Thomson
Duthac Centre, Tain:
Tuesday 4 February 2025, 1.30pm
Mareel Theatre, Lerwick:
Friday 21 February 2025, 6pm
Sir E. Scott Primary School, Tarbert:
Saturday 8 March 2025, 1:30pm
Dundee Rep Theatre:
Saturday 22 March 2025, 1.30pm
This interactive session will engage you in the process of powerful storytelling through opera, using scenes from Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights tour as inspiration.
Together with a music director and two singers, Emily will explore how music can illustrate dramatic context on stage. In this session, we explore the mechanics of staging and directing scenes from an opera, with your help to influence the direction and staging of the story.
Learn how singers use their voices and stage techniques to generate atmosphere and create mood to develop a character, and how basic props can support the time, location and even the weather in which the story is unfolding.
Open to all ages. No previous experience is required, but lots of enthusiasm!
Kindly supported by The McGlashan Charitable Trust and Scottish Opera's Education Angels
Workshop details
Running time:
Approximately 1 hour
Tickets:
Free, but booking in advance is required
2024/25 Season
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Opera Highlights 2025
Touring in 2025
Don Pasquale
Donizetti
The Merry Widow
Lehár
The Makropulos Affair
Janáček
National Opera Studio Showcase
Showcase
The Puccini Collection
Opera in Concert
Trial by Jury / A Matter of Misconduct!
Gilbert & Sullivan