Students at Aberdeen University will perform a tale of murder, music and meat under the baton of royal composer Paul Mealor next month.
The University of Aberdeen Opera Society’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, will transport the audience to 19th century London.
Professor Mealor, whose composition Ubi Caritas was performed at the royal wedding of Prince William and Katherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in 2011, is to conduct three performances at Aberdeen Arts Centre.
Evening showings will take place at 7.30pm on Thursday March 9 and Saturday March 11, with a matinee performance at 1pm on the Saturday.
The opera society is a student-run organisation which has performed many successful operas since its formation, including Dido and Aeneas, The Magic Flute, Carmen, Eugene Onegin and The Cunning Little Vixen.
Its most recent performance was of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
Tale of meat and murder springs from baton of royal composer
