The Assassin Tree
Tue 05 Sep 2006
Stuart MacRae's debut opera, The Assassin Tree, moves to London's Royal Opera House in Covent Garden on the September 6 for a three-night run. Full details on the Royal Opera House's web site.
A co-production of the Edinburgh International Festival, Royal Opera House and Scottish Opera, The Assassin Tree premiered at the Royal Lyceum Theatre on the 25th of August, selling out all three of its performances at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Visit our gallery of production shots from the opera.
To give you a taster of Stuart MacRae's music, we have four short musical clips from his CD, Violin Concerto & other works, released on the 24th of August on NMC Recordings.
From Two Scenes from the Death of Count Ugolino, a vocal piece based on a section of Dante's Inferno:
From the Violin Concerto, performed by Christian Tetzlaff with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra:
