"Fabulous performance! What a wonderful evening! Sublime singing, all accompanied by a magnificent orchestra. An absolute joy from start to finish! "

Honor and Frank Miller, audience members, Lanark Memorial Hall, 29/10/24

"I attend operas in London, Edinburgh, Leeds and Paris. It was nice to add Galashiels to the list! I enjoyed the evening immensely and the standard was so very high. I enjoyed everything and the musicians were also very talented. I loved the harpist, and the audience were very attentive....
such a high standard of singing.... an excellent compère!"

Brian Jeffers, audience member, Mac Arts, Galashiels, 25/10/24

"Thank you so much for a brilliant concert in North Esk church tonight. The wealth of talent on display, both in the soloists and orchestra, was wonderful.
The choice of music would appeal to everyone."

Liz and Gordon McLaren, audience members, Northesk Church (Brunton) Musselburgh, 24/10/24

"Fabulous evening!  Great choice of music, great orchestra and superb singers.  Compère wonderful and background to each piece of music and composers.  Wonderful ....  congratulations to everyone involved.   Bravo!!!!"

Anne Stewart, audience member, Crail Community Hall 13/10/24

"We absolutely loved every second of it - each of us was in tears at some stage ...the singers were wonderful, not just the voices, the whole ambience, the acting, the humour - and mixing with the musicians during break time and being able to thank them properly for the joy they gave us... I know the word enchanted is a bit overused but that's how we felt. 
You had us laughing out loud just about every single time. I still feel elated thinking back. So the evening was an absolute 11/10!"

Judith MacNeil, audience member 24/6/17

"a superb evening, ...loads of congratulatory comments, with special reference to the performance of all the singers and musicians, and of course, excellent compèring and brilliant guest solo spot ....almost as if it was all a dream. THE PERFECT CONCERT.....the smiling faces as our audience left the premises having thoroughly enjoyed the evening's entertainment."

committee member, Garnethill Synagogue, 26/3/17

"Scotland’s oldest functioning synagogue was transformed into a candlelit concert hall on Sunday night. Garnethill Synagogue hosted ‘A Night at the Opera,’ attended by a sell-out audience of 300 people.
Opera singers Emily Mitchell, Christine Sjolander, Adam Magee and Douglas Nairne with the Classical Musicians Scotland Orchestra accompanied on keyboard, and conducted by Oliver Rundell, performed a programme of popular arias. The concert was produced and presented by Daisy Henderson, and harpist Charlotte Sager performed before the concert and at the interval.
“In the unique setting of Garnethill the concert was an outstanding success in an incredible candlelit atmosphere,” Martin (Langman) said. It was a wonderful programme of opera classics, performed by superb singers and orchestra. The fabulous selection from well-known operas was rapturously received. The committee is now facing the challenge of “top that!’ "

Jewish Telegraph, 29/3/16

A Night at the Opera / four singers, eleven instruments, conductor, compère

Please contact daisy@classicalmusiciansscotland.com for more information or to book A Night at the Opera.

f you would like a really special event for a unique celebration, why not consider our Opera Gala evening?  You provide the space and the audience,  and we provide the musicians and a full programme of classics from the world of opera with a little operetta and possibly even a smidgen of Gilbert and Sullivan thrown in.

Soave sia il vento

….performed at Lanark Memorial Hall, 29/10/24,  soprano Emily Mitchell, mezzo Sarah Shorter, baritone Douglas Nairne with the Classical Musicians Scotland orchestra, conducted by Derek Clark

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

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