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Tosca Nixon in China a Midsummer Night's Dream TOSCA NIXON IN CHINA A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S 19 DREAM THE GONDOLIERS BREAKING THE WAVES ZANETTO SUSANNA’S SECRET IRIS 20CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA ZINGARI UTOPIA, LIMITED FOX-TOT! MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG 5 Subscription Information 6 Tosca 8 Nixon in China 10 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 12 The Gondoliers 14 Breaking the Waves 16 Opera in Concert 20 Opera Highlights 22 Fox-tot! 24 Merrily We Roll Along 26 Amadeus & The Bard 28 Pop-up Opera 32 Emerging Artists 33 Opera Unwrapped 34 Dementia Friendly Performances 36 Audio-described Performances 37 Pre-show Talks 38 Get Involved 40 Box Office Information A huge thank you to all our business sponsors and corporate members: Thanks also to our corporate supporters: Accenture, Caledonian MacBrayne, Cameron, Eusebi Deli, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, Glasgow Memory Clinic, M.A.C., NorthLink Ferries and Pentland Ferries. WELCOME TO SCOTTISH OPERA’S 2019|20 SEASON Scottish Opera has been entertaining At a time when, perhaps more than ever, audiences the length and breadth of the we are all thinking and talking about country for over 56 years, and still at the heart partnership, we are proud of the relationships of all we do are the words of our founder, that are critical both to Scottish Opera’s success Sir Alexander Gibson, whose vision was and to our ability to create new work for you. ‘to lay the treasures of opera at the feet We don’t work in isolation, and this Season of the people of Scotland’. exemplifies this spirit of collaboration across the world of opera, embracing our partnerships In our 2019/20 Season, we are delighted and co-productions with festivals, companies to take forward his momentous legacy and opera houses in Scotland, England, with a wealth of operatic fare – including Australia, Denmark, Spain and the United 12 operas – that takes us to over 50 venues, States, and with artists and creative teams and is augmented by numerous events in from near and far. schools, community centres, care homes and our own travelling theatre trailer. We hope that you find much to enjoy, and look forward to welcoming you to a An iconic production of Tosca, 20th-century performance soon. As ever, we extend our masterpieces by Benjamin Britten and John heartfelt thanks to everyone who makes it all Adams, and our latest staging of a Gilbert possible – our audiences, our supporters and & Sullivan favourite are complemented by the Scottish Government for its invaluable concerts celebrating Mascagni and rarely heard funding and support. gems by Leoncavallo and Wolf-Ferrari. The Scottish Opera Young Company presents Alex Reedijk Stuart Stratford Sondheim and gets involved in an enthralling General Director Music Director new production about two 18th-century rebels – Burns and Mozart. And there’s also our new show for toddlers and more of our important Dementia Friendly performances. 3 1. Aberdeen SEASON 2. Aboyne DON’T MISS OUT – 3. Alford 4. Annan SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE! 2019|20 5. Arisaig 6. Arrochar Save up to £70 7. Ayr • Book our subscription series – Tosca, Nixon in China, 8. Barrhead A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Gondoliers – 34 For over 56 years, Scottish Opera has taken opera the 9. Bathgate in Glasgow or Edinburgh and save up to £70. length and breadth of Scotland – travelling by land, air and 10. Beauly • Book Tosca and The Gondoliers in Aberdeen or sea to highlands, lowlands, cities and islands, from the 11. Birnam Inverness and save up to £20. smallest village halls to theatres, community centres and 12. Bowmore everything in between. We couldn’t do this without support 13. Bunessan Get further discounts Callander from all sorts of people and organisations, who give what 14. 15. Campbeltown Subscribers qualify for exclusive discounts on some Opera they can to help us do what we do best. 16. Castle Douglas in Concert performances – book before 29 April 2019. 17. Cumnock Thank you, each and every one of you. 18. Cupar Secure the best seats in the house 32 19. 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Find out more online. 4 5 REVIVAL OF THE 1980 PRODUCTION Subscription 19 | 20 Supported by The Scottish Opera Syndicate Theatre Royal Glasgow HHHHH HHHH 16 • 18 • 22 • 26 Oct 2019 7.15pm The Herald The Scotsman 20 Oct 2019 3pm Dementia Friendly Performance Passion, glamour, love worth dying for – Anthony Besch’s 24 Oct 2019 3pm (see page 34) Tosca has it all. In 1940s Rome, in the shadow of Mussolini’s tyrannical rule, the ill-fated lovers come to life against a backdrop His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen of political corruption and intrigue. With Peter Rice’s designs 31 Oct • 2 Nov 2019 7.15pm providing a spectacular setting to equal the drama, this superb Dementia Friendly Performance production is beloved the world over. Don’t miss it as it comes 1 Nov 2019 3pm (see page 34) home to the Scottish Opera stage. Eden Court, Inverness 5 • 7 • 9 Nov 2019 7.15pm ‘Scottish Opera’s Tosca is flawless, from start Festival Theatre Edinburgh The Herald to finish a feast for the eyes.’ 14 • 21 • 23 Nov 2019 7.15pm 17 Nov 2019 3pm Puccini’s music, at times heartbreakingly tender, at Dementia Friendly Performance others powerful and harrowing, captures the sweeping 19 Nov 2019 3pm (see page 34) span of the story – from the exquisite stillness of a silent dawn in Rome to the raw drama of Tosca’s final, desperate Running time approx. 2 hrs 45 mins plight. The must-see internationally renowned cast includes award-winning soprano Natalya Romaniw Sung in Italian with English supertitles (Eugene Onegin 2018), tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones (Il trovatore 2015) and baritone Roland Wood (Pelléas & Mélisande 2017). Music Director Stuart Stratford conducts. Conductors Stuart Stratford Tosca Natalya Romaniw & & Derek Clark Sinéad Campbell-Wallace Original Director Anthony Besch Cavaradossi Gwyn Hughes Jones Revival Director Jonathan Cocker Scarpia Roland Wood Designer Peter Rice Angelotti Dingle Yandell Puccini Lighting Robert B Dickson Spoletta Aled Hall Sacristan Paul Carey Jones TOSCA Sciarrone Lancelot Nomura 7 SCOTTISH OPERA PREMIERE Subscription 19 | 20 A new co-production with The Royal Danish Theatre & Teatro Real Madrid A first for Scottish Opera. John Fulljames – Director of Opera Theatre Royal Glasgow at The Royal Danish Theatre – directs Adams’ iconic work, with 18 • 20 • 22 Feb 2020 7.15pm designs by the ever-inventive Dick Bird (The Mikado 2016). Inspired by Nixon’s much-publicised visit to China in 1972, this Festival Theatre Edinburgh groundbreaking piece explores the reality behind the hype. It is 27 • 29 Feb 2020 7.15pm as much about the private moments as the public, about the Running time approx. 3 hrs 30 mins wives as much as the husbands, and about what we choose to remember as much as what actually happened… Sung in English with English supertitles ‘The most influential opera of the last few decades, it has lost none of its power and remains Adams’ finest stage work.’ The Guardian Famed for giving minimalism a human face, Adams mixes a huge range of sounds in his eclectic score. Pre-recorded electronics sit alongside live passages echoing Wagner and Johann Strauss; jazz references alongside big band sounds that evoke the 1930s of Nixon’s youth. Acclaimed Portuguese conductor Joana Carneiro John Adams leads an exciting cast including American baritone Eric Greene, Swedish soprano Julia Sporsén (Ariadne auf Naxos 2018), British tenor Mark Le Brocq (Anthropocene 2019) and South Korean NIXON soprano Hye-Youn Lee (La bohème 2017). IN CHINA Libretto Alice Goodman Conductor Joana Carneiro Richard Nixon Eric Greene Director John Fulljames Mao Tse-tung Mark Le Brocq Set & Costume Designer Dick Bird Chou En-lai Nicholas Lester Lighting Designer Ellen Ruge Pat Nixon Julia Sporsén Video Designer Will Duke Henry Kissinger David Stout Sound Designer Cameron Crosby Chiang Ch’ing (Madame Mao) Original Choreographer John Ross Hye-Youn Lee Revival Choreographer First Secretary to Mao Nathan Johnston Louise Callinan Second Secretary to Mao Sioned Gwen Davies Third Secretary to Mao Emma Carrington 9 Britten NEW PRODUCTION Subscription 19 | 20 A MIDSUMMER Supported by The Alexander Gibson Circle NIGHT’S DREAM Dominic Hill, Artistic Director of the Citizens Theatre, returns to Scottish Conductor Stuart Stratford Bottom David Shipley Festival Theatre Edinburgh Opera to bring his Shakespearean expertise to bear once more.
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