Fiddler was a successful enterprise, providing Bill McCue with another role that fitted him like a glove. It was revived for a Christmas season in 1986. Meantime, the company had mounted a second Broadway-style musical in My Fair Lady. Later ventures occurred during the years when John Mauceri was musical director - concert performances at the Edinburgh Festival of Gershwin's Girl Crazy and Weill's Lady in the Dark. Two hybrid Broadway operas have also featured, with full-scale stagings of Bernstein's Candide and Weill's Street Scene. It seems, however, to be Opera North that has continued a consistent policy of including musicals in its repertoire on a regular basis.
Scottish Opera's 1978-79 season
Scottish Opera's fourth season at the Theatre Royal (1978-79) opened with Simon Boccanegra, and continued with Jenůfa, Catiline Conspiracy then an unusual triple-bill of Savitri, Fanny Robin and Dido and Aeneas. Next came Seraglio, Rosenkavalier, Hansel and Gretel, Fledermaus, Midsummer Night's Dream, Bohème, Kátya Kabanová and Rigoletto. In June there followed the company's first staging of a musical, Fiddler on the Roof. Many of these works were also toured.
Tano Rea (Gla; Inv)
James Paterson (Edi)
Malcolm Donnelly (Gla; Inv)
Donald Maxwell (Edi)
Guy Woolfenden (Exc Jun 29, 30 m&e)
Peter Stanger (Jun 29, 30 m&e)
Theatre Royal, Glasgow | Glasgow
14 Jun, 19.15 15 Jun, 19.15 16 Jun, 14.15 16 Jun, 19.15
Eden Court Theatre | Inverness
19 Jun, 19.15 20 Jun, 19.15 21 Jun, 19.15 22 Jun, 19.15 23 Jun, 14.15 23 Jun, 19.15
King's Theatre, Edinburgh | Edinburgh
26 Jun, 19.15 27 Jun, 19.15 28 Jun, 19.15 29 Jun, 19.15 30 Jun, 14.15 30 Jun, 19.15
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