{"id":616331,"date":"2025-12-06T17:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/616331\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T17:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:12:19","slug":"spring-2026-the-nen-north-edinburgh-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/616331\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2026 \u2013 The NEN \u2013 North Edinburgh News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tickets are on sale now for Scottish Opera\u2019s Opera Highlights\u00a0The Office Party,\u00a0which journeys to 18 venues across Scotland this Spring.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bringing world-class opera direct to communities, the production hits the road from 3 February to 14 March.<\/p>\n

Telling the story of a raucous office party and a messy love triangle, it features four talented singers and a pianist and is the perfect opportunity to hear extracts from much-loved classics and lesser-known treasures.<\/p>\n

This production is woven together with music from Leoncavallo\u2019s\u00a0Pagliacci, Gounod\u2019s\u00a0Romeo and Juliette, Massenet\u2019s\u00a0Werther, Handel\u2019s\u00a0Alcina, Strauss II\u2019s\u00a0Die Fledermaus\u00a0and Samuel Barber\u2019s one-act opera,\u00a0A Hand of Bridge, all sung in English.<\/p>\n

Transforming smaller venues into a local opera house, the show travels to Glasgow, Tillicoultry,\u00a0Helensburgh, Town Yetholm, Newton Stewart, Dunlop, Dalmally, Dornie, Stornoway, Gairloch, Newtonmore, Banchory, Fraserburgh, Cromarty, Orkney, Wick, Lairg and Bathgate. Scottish Opera\u2019s extensive touring programme is one of the largest of any European opera company, ensuring performances are within reach of as many of Scotland\u2019s dispersed population as possible.<\/p>\n

Created specifically for Scottish Opera each season, performing in\u00a0The Office Party are 2025\/26 Emerging Artists soprano\u00a0Kira Kaplan\u00a0<\/strong>(Trial by Jury\u00a0&\u00a0A Matter of Misconduct!\u00a02025),baritone\u00a0Daniel Barrett\u00a0<\/strong>(L\u2019heure espagnole\u00a0&\u00a0The Bear\u00a02025), tenor\u00a0Connor James Smith<\/strong>\u00a0(The Merry Widow\u00a02025) and mezzo-soprano\u00a0Alexandria Moon<\/strong>, who is making her Company debut. Accompanying the singers on piano is Music Director\u00a0Toby Stanford<\/strong>, Emerging Artist Repetiteur.<\/p>\n

The show\u2019s Director is\u00a0Emma Doherty\u00a0<\/strong>who last worked with Scottish Opera on the Outreach & Education show,\u00a0The Giant\u2019s Harp, and was Assistant Director in 2024 on\u00a0Oedipus Rex\u00a0and\u00a0Marx in London!\u00a0Designs are by the award-winning\u00a0Kenneth MacLeod<\/strong>, who worked on last Season\u2019s\u00a0Opera Highlights.<\/p>\n

Emma Doherty<\/strong>\u00a0said: \u2018It was fantastic to see the audience reactions to our production this autumn, which showcases some beautiful music and deals with the themes of forbidden love and deception.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\u201cI am looking forward to getting back into the rehearsal room with the new cast, to prepare for the spring tour. In the show, designed by the brilliant Kenneth MacLeod, audiences can expect to see four colleagues with complicated love triangles who are gearing up for their office party!\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The operatic snapshots in the Spring tour are curated by\u00a0Fiona MacSherry<\/strong>, Scottish Opera\u2019s Head of Music, and her choices of music make the story immediate and accessible for the audience, from teens to grandparents, opera buffs to complete newcomers.<\/p>\n

The Spring tour follows a successful Autumn production, which visited 17 venues all over Scotland, includingEast Kilbride, Nairn, Castlebay, Lochranza, Johnstone, and Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Over 4000 people of all ages attended the Spring 2025\u00a0Opera Highlights\u00a0tour, with audience members commenting how it was \u2018wonderful that Scottish Opera comes to some of the more remote and rural areas\u2019, bringing the show \u2018to our doorstep\u2019.<\/p>\n

Audiences have praised the Autumn\u00a0Opera Highlights\u00a0tour, with one member saying they \u201cloved every minute\u201d of the show, and commented on the \u201cexcellent production, good acting and, of course, superb singing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another \u201cliked the ingenuity of building a story from excerpts\u201d adding the \u201csinging was wonderful\u201d.<\/p>\n

Opera Highlights\u00a0is supported by\u00a0Friends of Scottish Opera<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0JTH Charitable Trust<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Tickets are on sale now at\u00a0Touring Scotland: Opera On Your Doorstep: The Office Party | Scottish Opera<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tickets are on sale now for Scottish Opera\u2019s Opera Highlights\u00a0The Office Party,\u00a0which journeys to 18 venues across Scotland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-616331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115673744020672695","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}