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We've welcomed a wealth of talented performers to Haddo since 2012. For twelve years we presented an annual autumn Festival at Haddo plus other events during recent years. From 2025, in response to public demand we changed our plans to stage a season of monthly events instead of a festival.
Explore below our events that took place outside our annual Festivals and all events from 2025.
You can see details of our past Festivals HERE
On 11 October 2025
Water cooler moments, scheming co-workers and the leaving do that some would like to forget. Opera Highlights took us back to the office with a brand new show, transforming familiar situations - forbidden crushes and awkward workplace conversations - onto the stage. Think music paired with the whir of the photocopier, as we hears a range of operas, building a story of all-too-familiar office politics!
On 13 September 2025
In this year’s David & June Gordon Memorial Lecture, Byron: Half a Scot by birth and bred a whole one, Peter Hunter looked at Lord Byron’s Aberdeenshire roots and his connections with the Gordons of Haddo, before taking his audience on a journey to his early and heroic death in Greece aged 36.
On 11 September 2025
Presented in partnership with Aberdeen Art Gallery
On 24 August 2025
Orchestra Nova brought the glam and glitz of Hollywood to Haddo. We had an evening of iconic movie music from the exuberance of The Magnificent Seven to the heartbreak of Schindler’s List, and from the intensity of Samuel Barber’s Adagio (Platoon) to the irrepressible ogre, Shrek
On 29 June 2025
BBC New Generation artist Ryan Corbett delighted the Haddo audience with his virtuoso accordion playing. The evening was supported Neil Birse and Matthew Kilner, playing their original piano and saxophone compositions.
On 23 May 2025
British jazz pianist and composer Gabriel Latchin opened our 2025 programme with his trio.
On 23 August 2024 the Noca Quartet delighted a sold out audience with pop songs by Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Madonna and more, all scored for string quartet. Of course, it wouldn’t have been a period drama without some actual classical music from Beethoven and Vivaldi and the result was an irresistible blend of old and new.
On 30 June 2024 we enjoyed a sold out performance of Gabriel Fauré's ever popular Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine, in the Chapel at Haddo House. This event was in celebration of Gabriel Fauré's centenary year.
On 15 April 2024 we welcomed Professor A.E. Stallings to the library at Haddo for a poetry reading. Prof. Stallings is a widely-published and prize-winning American poet. Her books include Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives and, most recently, This Afterlife: Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2022). Among her many accolades are the Richard Wilbur Award, the Poets’ Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. Stallings translates widely, and has produced modern versions of Hesiod’s Works and Days and Lucretius’s The Nature of Things. In 2023 she was elected the Oxford Professor of Poetry.
Presented in association with Aberdeen Art Gallery and the David & June Gordon Memorial Trust, this exhibition features works by winners of The David and June Gordon Memorial Trust Prize from the annual New Contemporaries exhibitions at the Royal Scottish Academy between 2008 and 2023. The exhibition ran from April until November 2024.
On 8th July 2023, Haddo House Chapel was the atmospheric setting for the superb playing of Mexican virtuoso guitarist Morgan Szymanski, who took a sell-out Sunday afternoon audience on a musical journey of works by Latin American composers.
On Sunday 25th June 2023 we held our first free for all Community Music Day throughout the Haddo site.
Supported by our colleagues at the National Trust for Scotland, Haddo Country Park and McOpera with the Guarana Street Band and Meldrum Academy Pipe Band.
Featuring Andy McTaggart, Jessica Leary, Andrew Huggan and Andrew Forbes.
On 24th March 2023 at the Melvin Hall in Tarves we featured a programme of much loved classics from Rodgers and Hammerstein, Gershwin, Strauss and Sullivan.
On 25th September 2022 we took our first event to the Melvin Hall in Tarves where Opera Bohemia presented a new English language production of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro.
Following their successful visit in 2021 we were pleased to welcome Scottish Opera back to Haddo on 11th June 2022 with their new Pop-up Opera production.
On 4th May 2022 Inverness author Jennifer Morag Henderson presented a talk in Haddo House Library about her new book "Daughter of the North" which explores the incredible life of Jean Gordon, first wife of the infamous Earl of Bothwell who went on to marry Mary Queen of Scots.
On 19th June 2021 Scootish Opera were welcomed back to Haddo with their touring Pop-up Opera! production.