WHAT do you get if you cross opera singers with Scotland’s brightest indie talents?

We’ll find out on October 19, with the results of a unique collaboration between Scottish Opera and two of the country’s most hotly tipped performers which will put a “unique spin” on their songs.

Four Scottish Opera performers are to create new versions of material by Dundee’s electro-charged Be Charlotte and Carla J Easton, who leads harmony-driven Glasgow four-piece TeenCanteen. The “exciting” results will be revealed in a day of recording and live streaming as part of the BBC Opera Season.

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Special content will be broadcast on OperaPassion Day across BBC Two, BBC Four, Radio 3 and BBC Arts Digital. Charlotte Brimner of Be Charlotte, whose debut EP Heart of Survival is released this month following singles success, said she was “excited” at the prospect of reworking her hit One Drop.

She said: “As a vocalist I have huge respect for the enormous talent within opera.

“I’m always keen to embrace new challenges so I’m excited to collaborate with Scottish Opera, and have one of my songs reimagined as a classical piece.”

Meanwhile, Easton has chosen the track Impossible Stuff from her forthcoming solo album.

She said: “I am so honoured to have been invited to collaborate with Scottish Opera on a track.

“My recent work has been a development into orchestration and a further exploration of the power of multiple human voices stacked in harmony to utilise and unite human bodies as an additional instrument in making music, so the opportunity to work with Scottish Opera to continue this exploration is really amazing.”

Vocalists from the culture company include Royal Conservatoire of Scotland graduates Hazel McBain and Andrew McTaggart. They will be joined by Lithuanian mezzo-soprano Laura Zigmantaite and Alex Otterburn, who recently performed at the Edinburgh International Festival.

The collaboration is just one aspect of Scottish Opera’s involvement in OperaPassion Day, which will also include a live show from Bowmore on Islay and the reading of three specially commissioned operatic poems by celebrated authors Liz Lochhead, Alexander McCall Smith and Janice Galloway.