Opera Highlights by Scottish Opera - the 'bridezilla' scene with soprano and emerging artist Sarah Power

Love on a run: Scottish Opera takes Opera Highlights on a national tour of Scotland for its’ twentieth year. This time exploring the themes of love and attraction – one of opera’s main driving forces.

Above: the ‘bridezilla’ scene with soprano and emerging artist Sarah Power.

Scottish Opera's Opera Highlights performers tenor Paul Curievici, baritone Andrew McTaggart,  soprano Sarah Power and mezzo-soprano Máire Flavin
Above: Opera Highlights performers tenor Paul Curievici, baritone Andrew McTaggart, soprano Sarah Power and mezzo-soprano Máire Flavin

From Kirkwall’s Orkney Theatre to Dalbeattie Town Hall in Galloway this tour showcases the full range of emotions – from passionate declarations to weeping for missed chances, love unrequited or wholeheartedly returned.

Scottish Opera's mezzo-soprano Máire Flavin
Above: the angst of love and seduction: SO’s mezzo-soprano Máire Flavin

The programme is packed full of operatic gems, with much-loved pieces from Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte”, Verdi’s “Rigoletto” and Puccini’s “La Bohème” to Gilbert & Sullivan’s popular light opera “The Gondoliers”.

See full details of the tour – which runs until 5th April – here.

Photography for Scottish Opera and used in their press and publicity campaigns to promote the tour.