Club Noir and Scottish Opera present a burlesque night with an operatic twist. Scottish Opera - "Truly world class" The Scotsman The world's biggest burlesque night and Scotland's largest performing arts company team up for a heady mix of over-the-top, full blown theatricality and glamour.
Caledonian Carmen. Our season proper opens with a new touring production of Carmen, which kicks off at Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre in early September, before heading off around Scotland, visiting 22 venues from Dumfries to Kirkwall and everywhere in between. The production will feature both chamber orchestra and piano-accompanied performances and transfers the action to the heat of 1960s Spain.
The last of this Season's St Andrew’s in the Square concerts with our orchestra takes place at 3pm, Sunday 6 June. The concert features Bartok's Hungarian Sketches, Mendelssohn’s Overture and Incidental Music from A Midsummer Night's Dream, plus Scottish Opera Emerging Artist, soprano Nadine Livingstone, sings two beautiful operatic arias from Mozart's Idomeneo and Rossini's Il Turco in Italia.
Robbins / Millepied from 21 April to 08 May Different facets, in turn jazzy, elegiac or comic, of the art of one of the 20th century's great choreographers.
Five:15 has always offered a wide range of styles, themes and approaches to opera. This year, for the first time, it will have more of an international flavour.
PARIS OPERA BALLET WORLD PREMIERE Angelin Preljocaj explores the founding myth of he who was to become Buddha. Along with composer Bruno Mantovani and visual artist Claude Lévêque, he invites the Paris Opera Ballet on a fabulous adventure.
From Russia with love... First up is Prokofiev's War and Peace, our latest and largest annual Winter collaboration with The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Prokofiev fans will be excited to learn that this is a new version of the opera, reworked with the composer's original intentions in mind and free from the Soviet era censorship which shaped the work we know today.
Opera Highlights is now underway, having kicked off to a full house in Rutherglen last Tuesday. Tickets are going fast and the Strathmiglo and Midmar dates now only have returns available. So if you’d like to book tickets, get your skates on and head to our website for full tour information.
