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Touring Scotland | Autumn 2021

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 This Autumn, we're thrilled to be bringing live performance back to smaller venues around Scotland in our first in-person Opera Highlights tour for nearly two years.

Spend an evening revelling in the ups and downs of some of opera's greatest love stories - as we celebrate the passion, joy, silliness, sadness and heartbreak of all that it means to be in love.

Directed by Jeanne Pansard-Besson, with music selected by Head of Music Derek Clark, this hour-long show is full of fun and bittersweet comedy and features a programme of much-loved classics from Carmen, Don Giovanni and Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, alongside gems you may well be discovering for the first time. The exceptional young cast includes the first appearance of Scottish Opera 2021/22 Emerging Artists Lea Shaw (mezzo-soprano) and Glen Cunningham (tenor), alongside soprano Meinir Wyn Roberts and baritone Alexey Gusev. Scottish Opera repetiteur Fiona MacSherry leads all from the piano.

Join Scottish Opera this Autumn and get swept away by the emotion of live music once again.

Venues include: The Beacon Arts Centre Greenock, The Brunton Theatre Musselburgh, The Byre Theatre St Andrews, Ballachulish Village Hall, Strathpeffer Pavilion, An Lanntair Stornoway, Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre Peebles, The Gaiety Theatre Ayr and Queen's Hall Dunoon.

All performances will be staged with appropriate social distancing.

 

Supported by The Friends of Scottish Opera, The Scottish Opera Endowment Trust and The JTH Charitable Trust 

 

Cast & Creatives

Soprano
Meinir Wyn Roberts

Mezzo-soprano
Lea Shaw
Scottish Opera Emerging Artist 2021/22

Tenor
Glen Cunningham
Scottish Opera Emerging Artist 2021/22

Baritone
Alexey Gusev

Music Director/Pianist
Fiona MacSherry

Director
Jeanne Pansard-Besson

Video

VIDEO: Opera Highlights Autumn 2021 | Welcome!

Rehearsals have started for our Autumn Opera Highlights tour - we can't wait to welcome you back to venues around Scotland!

On stage

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Alexey Gusev, Lea Shaw, Meinir Wyn Roberts and Glen Cunningham

Opera Highlights Autumn 22021. Credit Beth Chalmers
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Fiona MacSherry and Glen Cunningham in Opera Highlights.

Opera Highlights Autumn 22021. Credit Beth Chalmers
Glen Cunningham and Alexey Gusev in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021..jpg

Glen Cunningham and Alexey Gusev in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021.

Opera Highlights Autumn 22021. Credit Beth Chalmers
Glen Cunningham, Meinir Wyn Roberts, Lea Shaw and Alexey Gusev in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers..jpg

Glen Cunningham, Meinir Wyn Roberts, Lea Shaw and Alexey Gusev in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers.

Opera Highlights Autumn 22021. Credit Beth Chalmers
Glen Cunningham, Meinir Wyn Roberts, Lea Shaw and Alexey Gusev in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers. (3).jpg

Glen Cunningham, Meinir Wyn Roberts, Lea Shaw and Alexey Gusev in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers. (3)

Opera Highlights Autumn 22021. Credit Beth Chalmers
Glen Cunningham in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers..jpg

Glen Cunningham in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers.

Opera Highlights Autumn 22021. Credit Beth Chalmers
Lea Shaw and Alexey Gusev in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers. (2).jpg

Lea Shaw and Alexey Gusev in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers. (2)

Opera Highlights Autumn 22021. Credit Beth Chalmers
Lea Shaw and Alexey Gusev in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers. (4).jpg

Lea Shaw and Alexey Gusev in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers. (4)

Opera Highlights Autumn 22021. Credit Beth Chalmers
Lea Shaw in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers..jpg

Lea Shaw in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers.

Opera Highlights Autumn 22021. Credit Beth Chalmers
Meinir Wyn Roberts in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers..jpg

Meinir Wyn Roberts in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers.

Opera Highlights Autumn 22021. Credit Beth Chalmers
Meinir Wyn Roberts in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers. (5).jpg

Meinir Wyn Roberts in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers. (5)

Opera Highlights Autumn 22021. Credit Beth Chalmers
Meinir Wyn Roberts in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers. (3).jpg

Meinir Wyn Roberts in Opera Highlights. Scottish Opera 2021. Credit Beth Chalmers. (3)

Opera Highlights Autumn 22021. Credit Beth Chalmers

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Already booked your tickets, or thinking about coming to one of our performances of Opera Highlights? We're doing everything we can to keep audiences, performers and staff members safe, and we want you to feel assured that we are taking every measure possible to make sure this is the case. 

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