Scottish Opera presents Opera Highlights @ Kelso Tait Hall

Overview

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.

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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.

Director Rebecca Meltzer
Designer Kenneth MacLeod

Music Director/Pianist Joseph Beesley

Performers:
Soprano Kira Kaplan
Mezzo-soprano Chloe Harris
Tenor Robert Forrest
Baritone Ross Cumming

“It was a wonderful experience. So beautifully organised and produced. A wholly delightful evening.” – Audience member, Opera Highlights Spring Tour 2024 in Blairgowrie.

“Many thanks to Scottish Opera for bringing this production to remoter parts of Scotland without easy access to big theatres – I look forward to seeing you again soon!” – Audience member, Opera Highlights Spring Tour 2024 in Stornoway.

Tickets from £20, and £6 for under 26s.

Kindly supported by Friends of Scottish Opera and JTH Charitable Trust
For more information: https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/shows/opera-highlights-2025

Event Image of Inna Husieva, Shengzhi Ren, Lea Shaw and Ross Cumming in Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Spring tour in 2024. photography by Sally Jubb.