Opera Highlights

The performance features arias, duets and ensembles from well-known operas including The Magic Flute (Mozart), La traviata (Verdi), Don Pasquale (Donizetti), The Merry Widow (Lehár), as well as music by Handel and Rossini, and a sprinkling of lesser-known works to surprise even the opera buffs out there.

Scottish Opera’s Head of Music Derek Clark, who hand-picks each song, says: As well as choosing familiar favourites, I try to introduce something that people won’t recognise. There’s also a couple of pieces from operas in our current season – we have excerpts from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Bizet’s Carmen. This is a very different experience from going to a full opera and I hope people will enjoy the more informal and intimate atmosphere that Opera Highlights creates. It’s a great way to try opera for the first time.

A cast of four talented young singers - Winner of the 2010 Ferrier Competition Njabulo Madlala, Scottish Opera Emerging Artist Marie Claire Breen, mezzo-soprano Catherine Hopper and tenor Nicholas Watts – together with pianist Alison Luz will bring the works to life in an entertaining semi-staged performance directed by Dafydd Burne-Jones.

So whether you’re in Stranraer or Sanday, Banchory or Ballachulish, sit back, relax, and enjoy.

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