March 2013

A new opera by Stuart MacRae (Edinburgh Festival Creative Fellow, 2005-6) was premiered at the 2012 Edinburgh International Festival. Ghost Patrol with libretto by Louise Welsh was commissioned and produced by Scottish Opera and has since been performed in Glasgow, as well as being toured extensively in England and Wales. It won the 2013 South Bank Sky Arts Award for opera, beating off competition from the Royal Opera House’s production of Les Troyens and the Barbican’s Where the Wild Things Are.