Handel’s ‘Semele’ tells the classic morality tale of what happens when mortals try to align themselves with the gods – a disaster every time!
In this case, Semele is in love with Jupiter, and seeks his help rather than accepting the mortal marriage arranged for her by her father. Jupiter whisks her away to a life of endless pleasure in Arcadia, but she increasingly wants more: immortality.
ESO’s talented cast will perform a modern adaptation of the opera which brings the plot into the modern world with references to the social climbing, …

The Okavango Macbeth returns to Edinburgh in April 2011 and Edinburgh Studio Opera perform as chorus
**The Okavango Macbeth**
Libretto by Alexander McCall Smith
Music by Tom Cunningham
Directed by Nicholas Ellenbogen

Chorus Includes:

Colleen Nicoll
Laura Reading
Claire Saunders
Marina Abel-Smith
Iona Seligman
Caroline Hickley
Rachel Timney
Debbie Miller
Ian McBain
Finlay MacAulay
Matthew Gibbons
Jimi Mitchell
Tom Paton

The Macbeth story as played out in a troop of baboons in Botswana? This fanciful idea inspired the writer Alexander McCall Smith and the composer Tom Cunningham to come up with their first opera, The Okavango Macbeth. Set in the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana, the opera deals …

The Rake’s Progress
Edinburgh Studio Opera perform Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress in 2011 as their main season production.
Friday 25th February
Saturday 26th February
Sunday 27th February
Monday 28th February
Tuesday 1st March
St Cecilia’s Hall, Cowgate. 7.30pm.
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Email tickets@edinburghstudioopera.com or call 07543596155 to reserve tickets.
Production Team
Director: Michael Richardson
Musical Director: Neil Metcalfe
Assistant Musical Director: Nick Fletcher
Producers: Heather Chalmers, Sarah Haddath and Rachel Timney
Publicity Designer: Jimi Mitchell
Principal Cast
Tom Rakewell: Joseph Doody/ Francis Powlesland
Ann Trulove: Julie Moote/ Jessica Leary
Nick Shadow: Jon Stainsby/ Jerome Knox
Baba the Turk: Laura Reading
Sellem: Ian Mcbain
Keeper of the Madhouse: Paul Grant
Mother Goose: Debbie Miller
Ensemble
Anna Churchill
Lusanda …