If Scottish Opera's Golden Jubilee year is recalled for anything, it should be this superb family show, written by Bernard MacLaverty and Gareth Williams and based on the true story of a female zookeeper who saves a baby elephant at Belfast Zoo during the Blitz.
If Scottish Opera's Golden Jubilee year is recalled for anything, it should be this superb family show, written by Bernard MacLaverty and Gareth Williams and based on the true story of a female zookeeper who saves a baby elephant at Belfast Zoo during the Blitz.
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Keith Bruce
Involving local primary schoolchildren wherever it plays – and if they are half as good as those from St Hilary's were here, they would still be terrific – and five singers from Scottish Opera's Connect youth posse, with a seven-piece ensemble in the pit (conducted by James Grossmith), it is a wonderful piece of heart-rending storytelling with an excellent score that embraces street game songs of earlier years but is still of the moment.
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