Sunday 25 June 11.00 – 3.00 pm We are very excited to be working with the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) and Country Park teams at Haddo and Music Co-OPERAtive Scotland (McOpera) on a pilot community music day on 25 June. Free to all, the day is focused around Come and Sing/Come and Play workshops…
Haddo House Choral & Operatic Society are delighted to announce that tickets are now on sale for for their Spring concerts. These are being held in the beautiful chapel at Haddo House. Two, hour long performances of stunning choral music – Britten, MacMillan, Fauré. Not to be missed! Please note that these concerts are managed…
In March, 2023, our friends at Haddo Children’s Theatre will present Olivia!, a brilliant and innovative show, set in Victorian times, that traces the steps of Olivia, from downtrodden orphan to star of the stage. On her journey to the bright lights of London, she is befriended by Eliza Doolittle [from “My Fair Lady”] and, after…
Opera Bohemia, Scotland’s professional touring opera company returns to Haddo Arts with Mozart’s sublime comedy. The big day has arrived for Figaro and Susanna, but a catalogue of twists and turns threatens to spoil it all! Will the wedding go ahead, or will Count Almaviva have the last laugh? Oliver Platt directs a new English…
After the success of Scottish Opera’s Pop-up Opera visit to Haddo last year we are delighted that they are returning in June with different operas Experience all the drama and wonder of grand opera on a miniature scale, with intimate open-air performances brought to life by a storyteller, two singers, instrumentalists – and a sumptuous…
As part of Scotland’s Year of Stories, our Festival events will feature the spoken word of Scotland in verse, song and story. Full details will be released in early summer but for now, here is a preview of our programme. Haddo Arts Festival 2022 Programme outline Saturday 8 October: Haddo House Operatic and Choral Society …
We are pleased to announce that our first event of 2022 is now on sale. Join us for an intriguing afternoon as Invernessian author, Jennifer Morag Henderson will be giving a talk on her fascinating book, Daughters of the North. The book explores the incredible life of Jean Gordon, first wife of the infamous Earl…
The 10th Haddo Arts Festival started last night with a spectacular sound and light show at Haddo. Images of festivals past and present were projected onto the front of Haddo House, accompanied by music from the festivals. Guests were able to visit the Art in the Park, presented by Haddo Country Park and featuring an…
Haddo Arts are thrilled to welcome internationally celebrated pianist Joanna MacGregor CBE, to play Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Piazzolla. Joanna will also explore the Art of Piano Transcription, through an illustrated talk, as this year’s David & June Gordon Lecture. We welcome for the first time at Haddo Festival, the professional drama group Ten Feet…
The first time I remember the dramatic impact of poetry was when I went along to Riverside Studios to hear Ted Hughes read poems from his collection on the theme of animals. In the darkened and atmospheric surroundings of the former TV studio, he radiated an air of intensity as he spoke, creating images that…
