OPERA HIGHLIGHTS TOUR HOPES TO HIT HIGH NOTES
Scottish Opera’s bid to take music to remote venues the length and breadth of Scotland arrives in Ayrshire this week. The Opera Highlights tour visits Maybole Town Hall on Thursday ( February 16). Touring until Saturday, March 18, Opera Highlights promises an evening of fun for all the family with a programme of works by opera’s greatest composers, colourful costumes and props, larger than life characters, and plenty of humour. Opera Highlights will also feature the world premiere of a short innovative new parody of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle called ‘ Bluebeard’s Cake’, created especially for the tour by Scottish Opera’s Composer in Residence Lliam Paterson.
This year’s cast is full of fresh new talent, including two Scottish Opera Emerging Artists, mezzo- soprano Emma Kerr and tenor Elgan Llyr Thomas, and two recent graduates of the National Opera Studio, soprano Roisín Walsh and baritone Adam Gilbert.
Former Scottish Opera Emerging Artist Repetiteur Jonathon Swinard returns to accompany the four young singers on piano, and current Scottish Opera Emerging Artist Jim Manganello directs.
The show at Maybole Town Hall starts at 7.30pm.
Scottish Opera is Scotland’s national opera company and the largest performing arts organisation in Scotland.
It was founded by Alexander Gibson in 1962 and was inaugurated with a production of Madama Butterfly at the King’s Theatre in Glasgow.
For tickets, call the box office on 01655 883222.