Following a sell-out run of performances last summer, Opera Bohemia, Scotland’s up-and-coming new opera company, is taking its acclaimed first production on tour. Performances of the company’s intimate and moving take on Puccini’s tragic masterpiece La Bohème will take place in a range of locations throughout Scotland, giving audiences across the country the opportunity to experience this unique production.

Rising Scottish star Catriona Clark leads a cast of emerging artists in the role of Mimi, the young seamstress whose failing health can’t prevent her falling in love with charismatic poet Rodolfo. This energetic and youthful production, sung in Italian with English surtitles and accompanied by violin and piano, captures all the emotional highs and lows of Puccini’s romantic score: from playful friendship to the rush of first love, to the devastating pain of heartbreak and loss.

Cast

Mimi                     Catriona Clark

Rodolfo                Alistair Digges

Marcello               Douglas Nairne

Musetta                Prudence Sanders

Colline                 Toby Hunt

Schaunard            Christopher Nairne

Alcindoro/Benoit         Nicholas Cowie

Director                John Wilkie

Piano                   Laura Baxter

Violin                   Amira Bedrush-McDonald

Tour dates

31 March: Holy Trinity Church Hall, St Andrews, 7.30pm. 01334 475000, www.byretheatre.com

2 April: Woodend Barn, Banchory, 7.30pm. 01330 825431, www.woodendbarn.co.uk

6 April: Corran Halls, Oban, 7.30pm. 01631 567333

8 April: Strathpeffer Pavilion, 8pm. 08444 771000, www.strathpefferpavilion.org

10 April, Lossiemouth Town Hall, 7.30pm. 01592 596904. Tickets also available from Lossiemouth Post Office

13 April, Arts Guild Theatre, Greenock, 7.30pm. 01475 723038, www.artsguildtheatre.co.uk

All tickets £12/£10

Source: Opera Bohemia