Opera review: Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights, Village Theatre, East Kilbride

IT’S good, now and again, to get up close to opera by witnessing this extravagant art form in the raw, its excesses stripped to the bone. That’s the principle behind Scottish Opera’s perennial Highlights Tour, a long established initiative that takes opera to Scotland’s more out-of-the-way venues with only four singers, a pianist, a basketful of props and disparate lucky bag of operatic excerpts.