This June, Scottish Opera presents a celebration of Gilbert & Sullivan comedies – A Little Bit of The Pirates of Penzance and A Little Bit of The Gondoliers. The double bill is coming to nearby Cupar and you’re invited to experience “opera on a miniature scale” with specially-created 30-minute performances brought to life by two singers, instrumentalists and a beautiful set of illustrations.

Packed with screwball humour, memorable characters, and of course brilliant tongue-twisting tunes, these 30-minute operas are perfect for audiences of all ages.

Enjoy a single performance or a double feature on Friday 6th June at the historic Corn Exchange in Cupar.

Follow this link to find information on the shows, show times, venue and access.

Pop-up Opera

Scottish Opera is Scotland’s national opera company and the largest performing arts organisation in Scotland. Their 2024/25 Season marks its 62nd Anniversary.

The Company’s performance repertoire ranges across five centuries, from the earliest operas to newly-commissioned world premieres, which include Antonia Bain and Samuel Bordoli’s brand-new animated opera short film Josefine and Emma Jenkins and Toby Hession’s satirical operetta A Matter of Misconduct! in the 2024/25 Season.

Scottish Opera collaborates with the world’s finest singers and creatives, together with The Orchestra of Scottish Opera and choruses for each opera. Recent accolades include a South Bank Sky Arts Award, a Scottish Award for New Music, Sunday Herald Culture Awards, a Herald Angel, and a 2020 RPS Award.

In 2021 the Company returned to live audiences with Sir David McVicar’s new production of Verdi’s Falstaff performed in Glasgow and at the Edinburgh International Festival.

The Company tours extensively across Scotland to ensure performances are within reach of as many of the country’s very dispersed population as possible. In 2021 the Company performed nearly 200 performances of its Pop-up Opera Roadshow to socially distanced audiences of 11,014 people – one of the most extensive touring programmes of any European opera company and a much-valued contribution to Scotland’s cultural and artistic life.

This season’s Pop-up Opera is back on the road visiting venues across Scotland’s mainland and islands.

Three Estate Cheers!

Thank you to the local charity Three Estates Cupar for their part in bringing the pop-up Opera to our neck of the woods.

Need more? Three Estates Cupar set up in 2019 with its founding trustees being the chairs of some longer-standing local organisations, to deliver the Old Scots Language elements of Cupar’s 2017 Interpretive Plan. Three Estates Cupar celebrate the fact that Scotland’s first playwright, Sir David Lindsay, was a Cupar man, whose play, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, was first performed in Cupar in 1552. In addition, the charity will celebrate that Sir David’s cousin, Robert Lindsay, also a Cupar man, wrote the first history of Scotland in Old Scots – his Historie and Chronicles of Scotland 1436 to 1565.

 

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