Opera Highlights show heading to Wick as part of Scottish tour
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A touring production will bring an evening of operatic entertainment to Wick early next year.
The vaudeville-inspired Opera Highlights show will travel to 18 venues around Scotland, including the Assembly Rooms.
Tickets are on sale now for the Wick show, scheduled for Saturday, February 19.
John Savournin directs a cast that includes soprano Monica McGhee and former Scottish Opera emerging artists Margo Arsane and Shengzhi Ren as well as baritone Dan Shelvey.
Margo and Shengzhi were scheduled to take part in the tour last year before it was cancelled because of the pandemic.
Mark Sandon joins the singers as pianist and music director.
The Edwardian-inspired production, designed by Janis Hart, is an opportunity to hear a wide range of music in one evening.
Curated by Scottish Opera’s head of music Derek Clark, it features much-loved classics such as Hansel and Gretel, Die Fledermaus and La Bohème as well as lesser-known pieces.
The production also features a new piece by Scottish composer Lucie Treacher. The quartet, entitled To the Lighthouse, weaves together scenes from the 1927 novel of that name by Virginia Woolf.
John Savournin said: "There is such a rich variety of repertoire in this season's Opera Highlights and I'm so excited to create a fun, visual world full of performance magic."
Scottish Opera general director Alex Reedijk said: ‘I am thrilled that such a fine company of young performers is able to tour all across Scotland. I hope that this delightfully entertaining and vaudevillian-themed Opera Highlights will help to encourage our audiences to make a welcome and safe return to live performances, for the first time in two years in many cases."
Other venues in the north and north-east include Inverurie, Fochabers and Tain. There are also dates in the Outer Hebrides.
The tour starts in Glasgow on February 8 and concludes in Cumbernauld on March 19.
Opera Highlights is supported by Friends of Scottish Opera and JTH Charitable Trust.
Tickets are on sale at www.scottishopera.org.uk
