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Rock of stages

In an ambitious collaboration between musicians, filmmakers, Gaelic writers and aerial dancers the story of the courageous people of St Kilda, eventually forced to leave their island, is to be beamed across Europe in the form of a breathtaking global opera

AMAN wakes up from a dream that he cannot get out of his head. He imagines an island in the middle of a wild ocean, towers of rock surrounded by swirling waves and stacks of wheeling seabirds.