Opera Bohemia opera every year since 2010. In that first Edinburgh Festival Fringe production of La Bohème, Mimi was played by international star Pumeza Matshikiza. For Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in 2012 another international star, Australian soprano Suzanne Shakespeare, performed Lucia. Other operas in Opera Bohemia's repertoire to date are Puccini's La Bohème, Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitor and Puccini's Gianni Schicci. Regular lead performers include the soprano Catriona Clark and, Alastair Digges (tenor) and Douglas Nairne (baritone). Digges and Nairne are also music directors for the productions, most of which are directed by John Wilkie, Opera Bohemia has received Creative
Royal Heroine a stakes race in Royal Heroine's honor which was changed in 2006 to the CashCall Mile Invitational Stakes. Retired for breeding, Royal Heroine produced seven foals. Although bred to notable sires such as Sadler's Wells and American Triple Crown winner, Affirmed, none achieved success in racing. However, her daughter Castilian Queen (Diesis) did produce the French Grade 1 Prix de l'Abbaye winner Carmine Lake (Royal Academy). According to the British "Racing Post", Royal Heroine died at age twenty-two. Royal Heroine Royal Heroine (1980–2002) was an Thoroughbred Champion racehorse foaled in Ireland who raced in England and France and then in