This funding has been provided by Creative Scotland, which has awarded the company a total of over £1.2 million. The money will be used to stage a unique version of Carmen that relocates the action to Renfrewshire in the 1960s. The production will centre on Ferguslie Thread Mills and all of the language has undergone a Paisley Scots translation. That will make it the sixth opera to get this treatment by the company.
The project marks a collaboration between three separate groups. They are community dance group right2dance, the Scottish Opera Orchestra - and three primary schools providing vocal chorus singers.
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The venue for this opera will be the Tannahill Centre and there will be four performances. Paisley Opera artistic director Simon Hannigan told the Renfrewshire Gazette that:
“Carmen is our latest and most ambitious project to date, involving more people than ever and giving them all the chance to experience great live music drama first-hand.”
The four performances of this show are scheduled to take place during May.
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