Austrian mezzo soprano Angelika Kirchschlager, together with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, will perform Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Berlioz’s languid Les nuits d’été, settings of six poems by French poet Theophile Gautier that pay affectionate homage to

Shakespeare. Celebrated Austrian mezzo soprano Angelika Kirchschlager is famed for the warmth and vividness of her readings, ideal qualities in these beautifully crafted songs of love, desire and longing.