OPERAVISION TO STREAM SCOTTISH OPERA’S DOUBLE BILL OF TRIAL BY JURY & A MATTER OF MISCONDUCT!

The sprightly double invoice of Scottish Opera’s new staging of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial by Jury and the world premiere of Emma Jenkins and Toby Hession’s A Matter of Misconduct! might be out there to look at on OperaImaginative and prescient from 3 August for six months.

The manufacturing opened in May at Theatre Royal Glasgow, earlier than touring to Festival Theatre Edinburgh and Opera Holland Park, with Trial by Jury directed by John Savournin, and A Matter of Misconduct! directed by Laura Attridge. Both operas are performed by Toby Hession, and designs are by takis.

The movie of the double invoice was produced for the freeview streaming platform OperaImaginative and prescient by Gemma Dixon of Maestro Broadcasting, who additionally directed the A Matter of Misconduct! movie, with Jonathan Haswell directing the movie of Trial by Jury. Audio manufacturing was by Floating Earth Ltd., and the recording was made at a Festival Theatre Edinburgh efficiency.

First carried out in 1875, Trial by Jury (a co-production by Scottish Opera, D’Oyly Carte Opera and Opera Holland Park), was the primary main hit from the partnership of WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Set round a traditional case of damaged vows – the defendant having actually left the claimant on the altar – the trial bubbles over with emotion, humour, and downright chaos, leaving the jury divided. How will they determine between the charming but swindling defendant and the completely fascinating claimant?

This manufacturing, which marks 150 years of Gilbert & Sullivan’s collaboration with D’Oyly Carte Opera, fashioned upon the primary efficiency of Trial by Jury, has a wonderful comedian forged which incorporates Richard Suart (The Gondoliers & Utopia, Limited 2021), Jamie MacDougall (Albert Herring 2024) and 2024/25 Emerging Artists Kira Kaplan (Opera Highlights 2025), Chloe Harris (Opera Highlights 2025) and Edward Jowle (The Makropulos Affair 2025).

It is carried out alongside Emma Jenkins and Toby Hession’s A Matter of Misconduct!, a new co-commission and co-production by Scottish Opera and D’Oyly Carte Opera.

Following the crowd-pleasing political satire In Flagrante, additionally by Jenkins and Hession, which premiered on the 2023/24 Opera Highlights tour, A Matter of Misconduct! tells the story of how when a scandal threatens to interrupt concerning the entrance runner in a bloody management marketing campaign, a lawyer is required to stop data from reaching the press. Sylvia Lawless from the agency Lawless, Lawless, Lawless and Crook should discover the loopholes on this fashionable tackle unsavoury behaviour.

Jamie MacDougall stars on this daring new operetta, alongside 2024/25 Emerging Artists Ross Cumming, Kira Kaplan, Chloe Harris and Edward Jowle.

Launched in 2017, OperaImaginative and prescient – curated by Opera Europa, the European affiliation of opera firms and festivals – streams performances from everywhere in the world, permitting viewers to look at productions from the best European opera homes from the consolation of their very own dwelling. As properly as full-length performances proven with subtitles, it options extracts, interviews and behind the scenes footage.

Scottish Opera General Director Alex Reedijk stated: ‘We are completely thrilled that our movie of Trial by Jury & A Matter of Misconduct! will attain world audiences by means of OperaImaginative and prescient this summer season.

‘We hope viewers all over the world enjoy this brilliant double bill, and it’s an amazing alternative to share the distinctive artistry of Toby Hession and Emma Jenkins, and administrators John Savournin and Laura Attridge, in addition to the proficient forged and The Orchestra of Scottish Opera.’

In 2019, in a vital first for Scottish Opera, Stuart MacRae and Louise Welsh’s Anthropocene was featured on the platform, adopted in 2023 by the Company’s manufacturing of one other Gilbert & Sullivan traditional, The Gondoliers. It has been watched greater than the rest since Christmas 2023, amassing virtually 70,000 views so far. Audiences praised the manufacturing calling it ‘magnificent’, ‘truly first rate’ and ‘superb’.

Karen Stone, Opera Europa Executive Director stated: ‘Scottish Opera is respected internationally for the quality of its productions, its commitment to creating new work and its dedication to serving many communities across Scotland. I am delighted that the double-bill of Trial by Jury & A Matter of Misconduct! will find new audiences across the world through Opera Europa’s streaming platform. We stay up for Scottish Opera changing into a extra common contributor to OperaImaginative and prescient, which showcases all of the vibrancy of opera-making in Europe right now.’

Executive Producer Gemma Dixon stated: ‘Producing the fabulous Trial by Jury & A Matter of Misconduct! double invoice for streaming on OperaImaginative and prescient was an actual pleasure.

‘Our job is all the time to cherish a manufacturing and inform the story by means of the lens, matching the standard of what we see on stage with what we placed on the display. The great thing about our work is in capturing the additional particulars, the story beats, reactions and facial expressions that may be missed within the auditorium when watching from a distance, and they’re in abundance right here! The high quality of each productions and the very good forged and manufacturing groups made the job simple for us.

‘Although both productions are brilliant on screen, A Matter of Misconduct! was particularly fun to direct because of the level of detail in the musical score, the witty libretto and the close interplay between the score, libretto and action. I’ve tried to spotlight these moments and replicate the vitality and comedy of the manufacturing within the alternative of framing and the timing of digital camera photographs.’

Trial by Jury & A Matter of Misconduct! can be found to look at from 6pm BST (7pm CET) on 3 August at https://operavision.eu/en

Trial by Jury is supported by the Michael Bishop Foundation, Lord Glendonbrook and the D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust.

A Matter of Misconduct! is supported by Scottish Opera’s New Commissions Circle.

Trial by Jury artistic crew and forged

Conductor Toby Hession

Director John Savournin

Choreographer Kally Lloyd-Jones

Designer takis

Lighting designer Ben Pickersgill

The Learned Judge Richard Suart

The Plaintiff Kira Kaplan*

The Defendant Jamie MacDougall