What's On - Scottish Opera Highlights

Opera Highlights is back on the road in 2025, touring to 24 venues across Scotland with an original 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 vignettes 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.

Music Director/Pianist Joseph Beesley

Performers
Soprano Kira Kaplan
Mezzo-soprano Chloe Harris
Tenor Robert Forrest
Baritone Ross Cumming
Director Rebecca Meltzer
Designer Kenneth MacLeod

Information published by Leisure and Culture Dundee.