Now that is intriguing. Pitlochry Pageant Theatre and Scots Opera Undertaking are teaming up for a manufacturing of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in an thrilling new Scottish Gaelic and Scots Language model! David Douglas directs with a Scots translation by Dr Michael Dempster and Gaelic translation by Marcas Mac an Tuairneir. And no, I am not clear how they plan to make the combo of languages work, however Scots Opera Undertaking debuted this model in 2018 and in 2019, was nominated for each a Scots Language and a Scottish Gaelic Award for Dido and Aeneas.

The out of doors performances run at Pitlochry Pageant Theatre from 31 August to fifteen September, and can characteristic an expert solid together with Kilmarnock-based tenor David Douglas, Perthshire based mostly soprano Coleen Nicoll, Edinburgh based mostly Northern Irish soprano Emma Morwood, Glasgow based mostly baritone Colin Murray and Stirling based mostly Austrian mezzo-soprano Ulrike Wutscher, and group refrain. 

In 2022, Scots Opera Undertaking gave the Scottish premiere of Granville Bantock and Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s The Seal-Lady.

Additional particulars from the Pitlochry Pageant Theatre’s web site.