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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, 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
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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:
Download full PDF brochure as spreads (1.87MB) - this is recommended particularly if you use a screen reader.
Download full PDF brochure as single pages (2.12MB) - this is recommended particularly if you are viewing it on a mobile.
View the brochure on FlipHTML5 - also embedded below:
In Rehearsals

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 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 Ross Cumming In Rehearsals For Opera Highlights. Credit Sally Jubb.
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