Two weeks until the Scottish premiere of Richard Strauss' Daphne! 🎻🍂 With its famously rich orchestrations, Daphne is dramatically and musically the perfect candidate for an Opera in Concert. We spoke with Director Emma Jenkins about Strauss' bucolic tragedy: ‘The music is extraordinary and rapturous with shades of Wagner,’ Emma says. ‘Daphne’s final transformation must surely be one of the most glorious passages of music ever written.’ Find out more and get a taste of Strauss' lush score befo

What is an 'opera in concert'? Operas in concert, such as our 2023 staging of Richard Strauss' Daphne, use minimal props and costume to perform a full opera, with the orchestra often on stage with the singers. Director Emma Jenkins takes us through the processes and decisions for staging Daphne in concert form. She discusses how she translated Richard Strauss' story, loosely based on Greek mythology, to a period of Germany’s Weimar Republic in the years before the opera was composed. Final perfo