NEW operas staged in a stables, a lighthouse, a bus and a flat are to be part of a Scottish music festival later this year.
The Sound festival in the north-east of Scotland has commissioned the new operas, each with only a handful of singers and musicians, as part of the event which runs from October 19 to November 18.
The festival hopes the unusual operas will encourage new listeners to follow the art form, engage traditional opera fans with modern music and encourage fans of modern music to listen to one of the usually most lavish genre of musical production.
The four-day opera event, with each show performed twice, includes a new opera called The Garden, written by award-winning writer Zinnie Harris and composer John Harris which will be staged in an as-yet unindentified urban flat.
Bolted, by Pippa Murphy and Ben Harrison, will be performed in a stables near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, while Scottish Opera's composer-in-residence, Gareth Williams, will see his new work, Last One Out, performed in Fraserburgh Lighthouse.
Listeners who wish to see every opera in the Out of the Box weekend will tour the sites on a festival bus which will also have an opera performed on it, by Stephen Deazley.
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