¡España!

Our most recent staged production was an evening of staged excerpts from operas set in Spain. There are plenty to choose from, ranging from the very well-known to the much more rarely performed - so our show included scenes from The Barber Of Seville, Don Giovanni, Verdi's The Force Of Destiny, Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole, Bernstein's Candide and more, in a fast-moving and varied evening of drama, laughter and Spanish passion - and, of course, wonderful music.

"I loved every minute of it" - audience member, Ayr 

Bjartmar Sigurdsson as Don Jose and Una McMahon as Carmen 

¡España! was directed by Mark Hathaway and performed by five singers with Opera On A Shoestring's musical director Ruth Wilkinson on piano, and was very well received by audiences in Glasgow, Stirling, Ayr, Banff and Beith, and - in a concert version - in Gordonstoun.

OOAS is no longer taking bookings for this show, but do contact us for details of our planned future productions.

Baritone Phil Gault as Massenet's Don Quixote	The full company, in rehearsal L-R Una McMahon, Bjartmar Sigurdsson, Michelle Foster, John Pumphrey, Phil Gault