KIRA KAPLAN
SOPRANO
UK based American Soprano Kira Kaplan was a 2023/2024 Young Artist with the National Opera Studio, which feature performances with Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera and English National Opera. Kira is a 2024/2025 Emerging Artist with Scottish Opera.
Upcoming roles include a debut as Donna Anna with Waterperry Opera Festival. Lead roles with Scottish Opera in the 2024/2025 season include Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring alongside international star Susan Bullock, Norina in Don Pasquale (cover and access performances), The Plaintiff in Trial by Jury (Gilbert and Sullivan). This year will also include the lead role of Sylvia Lawless in the world premiere of A Matter of Misconduct (Emma Jenkins and Toby Hession), a coproduction with Opera Holland Park.
Kira recently made her American role debuts as Violetta in La Traviata with the Janiec Opera Company/Brevard Music Center and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi with Finger Lakes Opera
Listen to Kira’s recent interview with BBC Radio
NEXT PERFORMANCES
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TRIAL BY JURY
ANGELINA
SCOTTISH OPERA | OPERA HOLLAND PARK
Wednesday, 14 May - Thursday, 26 June 2025
14-16 May | Theatre Royal Glasgow
30 May - 06 June | Festival Theatre Edinburgh
24 & 26 June | Opera Holland Park
First performed in 1875, this is the first major hit from the partnership of WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Set around a classic case of broken vows - the defendant having literally left the claimant at the altar - the trial bubbles over with emotion, humour, and downright chaos, leaving the jury divided. How will they decide between the charming yet swindling defendant and the utterly captivating claimant?
Trial by Jury is a new co-production by Opera Holland Park, Scottish Opera and D'Oyly Carte Opera A Matter of Misconduct! is a co-commission and co-production by Scottish Opera and D’Oyly Carte Opera Trial by Jury and A Matter of Misconduct! are presented as a double bill Sung in English with English surtitles With The Orchestra of Scottish Opera and the Chorus from Scottish Opera
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A MATTER OF MISCONDUCT
SYLVIA LAWLESS
SCOTTISH OPERA | OPERA HOLLAND PARK
Wednesday, 14 May - Thursday, 26 June 2025
14-16 May 2025 | Theatre Royal Glasgow
30 May - 06 June | Festival Theater Edinburgh
24 & 26 June | Opera Holland Park
Following the crowd-pleasing political satire In Flagrante, which premiered on the 2023/24 Opera Highlights tour, Emma Jenkins and Toby Hession present a daring new operetta set in the press room at Number 9 Downing Street.
When a scandal threatens to break about the front runner in a bloody leadership campaign, a lawyer is needed to prevent information from reaching the press. Sylvia Lawless from the firm Lawless, Lawless, Lawless and Crook must find the loopholes in this modern take on unsavoury behaviour.
Trial by Jury is a new co-production by Opera Holland Park, Scottish Opera and D'Oyly Carte Opera A Matter of Misconduct! is a co-commission and co-production by Scottish Opera and D’Oyly Carte Opera Trial by Jury and A Matter of Misconduct! are presented as a double bill Sung in English with English surtitles With The Orchestra of Scottish Opera and the Chorus from Scottish Opera
NEXT PERFORMANCES
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ALBERT HERRING
MISS WORDSWORTH
SCOTTISH OPERA
Thursday, 05 September - Wednesday, 13 November 2024
5 & 6 September | Lammermuir Festival
18 & 22 October | Theatre Royal Glasgow
13 November | Festival Theatre Edinburgh
One of the 20th century’s most beloved operatic comedies, Albert Herring is Britten's loose adaptation of a Guy de Maupassant short story, full of quirky yet loveable characters and 1990s nostalgia.
In this chamber production created for the Lammermuir Festival, award-winning director Daisy Evans (The Telephone 2020) and designer Kat Heath bring a colourful eye to this story of finding one’s own path in life despite — or perhaps because of — misadventures along the way.
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DON PASQUALE
NORINA
SCOTTISH OPERA
ACCESS PERFORMANCES:
25 October 2024 | Theatre Royal Glasgow
5 November | Festival Theater Edinburgh
This highly successful production of Donizetti’s quick-witted comedy began life at Scottish Opera in 2014. Since then, it has entertained audiences in Miami, Genoa, Vancouver, and Toronto.
Director-designer duo Renaud Doucet and André Barbe (La bohème 2017) bring this production to life in their usual colourful and quirky style. Set at the start of the Swinging Sixties, the story of these eccentric characters unfolds in a perfect setting for a clash of generations.
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