Details

In fourteenth century China a group of workers gather to act out a play, The Chao Family Orphan. The action of the play seems to parallel the life of the opera's protagonist, a civil engineer named Chao Lin, who misinterprets it and tries to use it to predict his own destiny. But fate has a different end in store for Chao and is not to be outwitted. New Production. Sung in English. Run time approx. 2hrs 20mins inclu. interval.

Cast/Performers

Reno Troilus, Nicholas Warden, Toby Stafford-Allen, Jane Harrington, Kamian Thantrey, Fiona Kimm, Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks, Philip Salmon, Rebecca de Pont Davies, Sarah Redgwick, Stephen Chaundy

Creatives/Company

Author: Judith Weir
Company: Scottish Opera
Director: Lee Blakeley
Lighting: Jenny Cane
Choreographer: Kally Lloyd-Jones