Opera Highlights by Scottish Opera takes to the road this autumn on its 60th anniversary tour, stopping off across Scotland from Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway to Shetland. The overriding theme of the two-hour repertoire is love and includes classics from Mozart’s The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Verdi’s Macbeth and Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers duet alongside music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Gounod and Mendelssohn, written when he was just 12 years old.