Trending Thursday: Inverness Opera singers freeing us from technological enslavement

Picture the scene if you will – it's Sunday, you're just out of church/bed (delete as appropriate), and you decide that the one thing you really have to do today is go to the O2 shop on the High Street. Maybe you've got a phone update due. Maybe you've heard about the upcoming Galaxy S5 and want to see all the new and exciting ways it stays exactly the same as the S4. Maybe your children have birthdays coming up, and the only thing they want is a phone with SnapChat capabilities. The reason is unimportant. You're going to the O2 shop.

Now picture the shop itself – a white, sterile shrine to the joys and terrors of modern technology. A thousand hanging cables greet you, with plastic phone cases bolted to the walls and eerily cheerful “Advisors” awaiting you at every terrifying corner to spout phone specifications at you in a strange language that sounds so similar to English. Yet it can't be. You don't understand a word.

Now, imagine this being punctuated by opera singers belting out some tunes to break us out of the glassy-eyed monotony.

Luckily, you don't need to imagine this, when this actually happened. Inverness Opera Company, currently preparing for their show at Eden Court, took the time out to surprise phone shoppers - and their perma-grinning overlords – by indulging in some classic flashmob antics. Watch the event, recorded for posterity, and be astounded.

Inverness Opera Company's new show, “Day & Night”, is playing at Eden Court Theatre on March 26-29. For more information, or to book tickets, go to https://www.eden-court.co.uk/whats-on/shows/day-night, email boxoffice@eden-court.co.uk or call 01463 234234.

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