Scottish Opera

Following last year’s success, Scottish Opera’s Pop-up Opera Roadshow embarks on a second tour of Scotland this Summer, with three fun-filled 25-minute shows for audiences of all ages: A Little Bit of Figaro, A Little Bit of Mikado and A Little Bit of Northern Light.

From 21 May to 2 July, a specially-adapted trailer – designed to look like a miniature Theatre Royal Glasgow inside – travels to 18 locations to deliver 84 performances across Scotland with 1 storyteller, 2 singers, 3 instrumentalists and a series of colourful illustrations.

A Little Bit of Figaro – a bite-sized version of Mozart’s irresistible opera The Marriage of Figaro – tells the tale of serving girl Susanna, her cheeky fiancé, Figaro, and their employer, Count Almaviva, who will stop at nothing to make Figaro and Susanna's big day end in disaster.

One of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular comic operas, The Mikado, has been chopped down to create A Little Bit of Mikado. The Mikado of Japan has decreed that flirting should be punishable by death. But when his son Nanki-Poo falls for the beautiful Yum-Yum, it looks like someone might be heading for the executioner’s block.