In 2016, Garnethill Synagogue asked us to provide a Candlelit Classics evening to help them raise funds for the upkeep of their truly unique building in Glasgow’s city centre, and A Night at the Opera was born.
We arrive with a full complement of professional musicians including four singers, five strings, four woodwind, a horn player, a harpist, a conductor/pianist and a compère and a wonderful evening is in store.
The programme of favourite operatic melodies include pieces to delight both the musical connoisseur and the less operatically minded, and homage is paid to Bizet, Delibes, Donizetti, Mozart, Offenbach, Puccini, Saint-Saens, J Strauss and Verdi with an acknowledgement to Lehar and Gilbert and Sullivan. Each item is introduced with polish and panache, explaining which character was singing, how he/she was feeling and why, and what he/she was expressing in the music. A surprise or two may also be in store!
Performances:
7.30pm, Wednesday 22 October 2025, St Andrew’s Hall, Crieff
7.30pm, Saturday 18 October 2025: Dollar Academy
7.30pm, Sunday 12 October 2025: Newton Stewart Cinema
7.30pm, Tuesday 29 October 2024, Lanark Memorial Hall
7.30pm, Friday 25 October 2024, MacArts, Galashiels
7.30pm, Thursday 24 October 2024, Northesk Church (Brunton) Musselburgh
7.30pm, Sunday 13 October 2024, Crail Community Hall
CANCELLED due to COVID, Sunday 29 March 2020, Edinburgh Synagogue “An Evening of Opera Classics”
Sunday 19 May 2019, The Spire Concert series, 260 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4JP
Sunday 31 March 2019, Edinburgh Synagogue
Sunday 25 March 2018, Garnethill Synagogue Act III “Opera with a Twist”
Sunday 18 March 2018, Edinburgh Synagogue
Saturday 26 August 2017, New Kilpatrick Church, 28 Kirk Place, Bearsden, G61 3RT
Saturday 24 June 2017, Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow, at 12 Nelson Mandela Place, Glasgow
Sunday 26 March 2017, Garnethill Synagogue, “A Night at the Opera Act II”
Sunday 20 March 2016, Garnethill Synagogue, Candlelit Classics
