After the easing of the restrictions and challenges in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, Lammermuir Festival and the local people of East Lothian presented the world premiere of Catriona and the Dragon, a community opera for East Lothian by Lliam Paterson (composer) and Laura Attridge (librettist).
Catriona and the Dragon tells the story a reluctant ruler of the Kingdom of Beagland, whose people are threatened by destruction from a fearsome dragon beyond the Bridge to Nowhere. After fleeing her responsibilities, will she ultimately find the courage to cross over to the beast’s lair, sword in hand? When she returns, miraculously alive, she summons the citizens of the land to her court to tell them what she has discovered about the real blight in Beagland…