Led by theatre-maker Flora Emily Thomson, How to Stage an Opera is a free interactive session which will engage participants 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, as well as exploring the mechanics of staging and directing scenes, and how singers use their voices and stage techniques to generate atmosphere and create mood.
Touring 24 venues across Scotland, Scottish Opera presents Opera Highlights is back on the road with a brand-new piano-accompanied production. 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 scenes 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.
Tickets for How to Stage an Opera (FREE) and Scottish Opera Presents Opera Highlights (£20/£6) are available to purchase online, in-person at the Box Office in Mareel, or by calling on 01595 745 500 during opening hours of 10am-9pm, Tuesday - Sunday.
