Event listing: The Okavango Macbeth | Queen's Hall, Edinburgh | Wed 20 Apr 2011 at 19:30

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Queen's Hall, Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9JG, United Kingdom

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Programme

Cunningham, Tom (b. 1946)

Performers

Edinburgh Studio Opera
Michael Bawtree	Conductor
Nicholas Ellenbogen	Director
Mr McFall's Chamber
Beth Mackay	Mezzo-soprano	Lady Macbeth
Ronan Busfield	Tenor	Macbeth
Nicholas Morris	Baritone	Primatologist 1
Jamie Rock	Baritone	Primatologist 2
Jessica Leary	Soprano	Primatologist 3
Andrew McTaggart	Baritone	Duncan

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The Okavango Macbeth - UK Premiere in Edinburgh.

David Smythe, 20th April

While on a wildlife safari holiday in the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana, Alexander McCall Smith asked his guides to take him across a river to where two primatologists were researching baboon behaviour. Baboons are matriarchal and uniquely in common with humans, high status is inherited.

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