SOARING voices are set to touch down at the home of soaring aeroplanes as part of a national operatic roadshow.

The National Museum of Flight at East Fortune is the second stop on Scottish Opera’s special tour, which will take in venues including Glasgow’s Riverside Museum and Edinburgh Zoo.

Twenty-five minute versions of full operas – A Little Bit of Don Giovanni and A Little Bit of The Gondoliers, as well as a family-friendly The Song of The Clyde – are being offered.

The shows are performed in a specially adapted trailer to create a portable stage to adhere with social distancing guidelines.

While past productions of pop-up operas have accommodated both the audience and performers inside the mobile Theatre Royal trailer, this year performances are al fresco, with a covered stage and audiences out front in the open air, seated in social/household bubbles.

Jane Davidson, Scottish Opera’s director of outreach and education, said: “Scottish Opera’s pop-up tour is even more delighted than ever to be out and about across the country, performing a selection of miniature gems from the opera repertoire.

“Alongside the dark and powerful tale of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, you will be transported to Venice to observe the complicated love lives of two lads who make their living on the waterways of that most romantic of cities in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers.

“Continuing with the watery theme, a new show for families with younger children, The Song of The Clyde, traces the history that sprang up along the banks of one of Scotland’s most famous rivers from ancient times right up to the present day.”

Performances take place at the National Museum of Flight at 12.45pm and 3.15pm on Sunday.

The shows are brought to life by storyteller Allan Dunn, singers Sarah Power, Stephanie Stanway, Aidan Edwards and Andrew McTaggart, instrumentalists Andrew Drummond Huggan, Sasha Savaloni and Ian Watt, and a series of colourful illustrations by Tim Gravestock, Otto Von Beech and Iain Piercy.

Arranged by Derek Clark, Scottish Opera’s head of music, A Little Bit of Don Giovanni offers highlights from Mozart’s classic dark tale of seduction.

Meanwhile, one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular comic operas has been whittled down by Derek Clark to create A Little Bit of The Gondoliers.

Finally, The Song of the Clyde, composed by Karen MacIver with words by Allan Dunn, tells the story of one of Scotland’s most famous rivers.