Travelling Tales 🚂🚢✈️ Earlier this month, Scottish Opera's Community Choir took audiences on an epic musical journey over land and sea, with their travel-inspired songs. This performance included a brilliant performance of The Wreck of the Hesperus by Hamish McCunn. 📷: Julie Broadfoot
BTW @scottishopera.bsky.social Marriage of Figaro is a treat for eyes and ears.
Sir Thomas Allen’s Marriage of Figaro for @scottishopera.bsky.social still entertains ✍️ David Smythe bachtrack.com/review-marri...
Don't miss @scottishopera.bsky.social Marriage of Figaro. Fine singing and looks gorgeous. Sir Thomas Allen's astute direction tells the story and the comedy is spot on. Read more @bachtrack.com bachtrack.com/22/296/view/... 📷 Mihaela Budlovic
Thank you for your support this Big Give. Together, we have raised over an incredible £26,000. To all our generous donors, thank you so much for your support. We exceeded our target of £20,000 within three days as a result of the kindness shown by our community and contributions of new donors.
🎉The Big Give Arts for Impact campaign is officially LIVE!🎉The Big Give Arts for Impact campaign will nurture the next generation who will carry our craft into the future. Until Tuesday 24 March, every donation up to our £10,000 target will be DOUBLED. Donate: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Opening Doors for Scotland’s Young Creative Talent – Big Give
Scottish Opera is launching a new programme to tackle the national decline in creative education and the growing skills gap …
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📣Help us open doors for Scotland’s young creative talent with the Big Give Arts for Impact Campaign. 📌From 17–24 March, every donation up to our £10,000 target will be matched pound for pound meaning your donation can make double the difference.
Four and a half hours listening to beautiful, beautiful music and my first ever performance of Tristan and Isolde @scottishopera.bsky.social
His Excellency Hiroshi Suzuki, the Japanese Ambassador to the UK and Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture joined us for Scottish Opera's World Premiere of The Great Wave at Theatre Royal, Glasgow, last night. 📸: Hiroshi Suzuki (@AmbJapanUK) on X
Masterpiece, fridge magnet, phone case … opera: how Hokusai’s The Great Wave hit the stage
Masterpiece, fridge magnet, phone case … opera: how Hokusai’s The Great Wave hit the stage
He survived a stroke, a lightning strike, a fire – and created one of the world’s most recognisable images. Now the Japanese artist’s ‘wild, fascinating’ life has inspired an opera
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🚨Final tickets remaining for Ayr Concert Series: A Gala Evening of Opera 📅TOMORROW: Wednesday 4 February | 7.30pm | Ayr Town Hall The Orchestra of Scottish Opera takes to the stage with former Emerging Artists Ross Cumming and Catriona Hewitson. Book tickets: https://ow.ly/5wzA50Y8hX2
Read why The Guardian is calling Harry Ross and Dai Fujikura's The Great Wave one of the year’s must-see events. 👇 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/31/lily-allen-charli-xcx-simon-rattle-music-to-listen-out-for-in-2026
It’s time to surrender to the drama of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. 💔 🎟️https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/shows/tristan-und-isolde/ Theatre Royal Glasgow: 7 March 2026, 3pm| Usher Hall, Edinburgh: 11 March 2026, 5.30pm
Feeling nostalgic for 2016? s a m e. Here’s a look back at our 2016 production of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. Sir Thomas Allen's production is back for 2026! Cure that nostalgia ASAP 👇 https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/shows/the-marriage-of-figaro/
#Review: Opera Highlights @TraverseTheatre.bsky.social ★★★★ "Energetic staging gives depth and nuance to the plot, helping to weave the disparate stories together into a cohesive new narrative." @ScottishOpera.bsky.social #theatre #edinburgh #theatresky everything-theatre.co.uk/2025/11/revi...
Review: Opera Highlights, Traverse Theatre - Edinburgh - Everything Theatre
For anyone tempted to think of opera as stuffy, remote or inaccessible, this production shows we might all have opera-sized feelings, even when trying to give a professional veneer at the office party
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@scottishopera.bsky.social is seeking an experienced and inspiring Head of Individual Giving to lead our individual and major gifts programme during a period of maternity leave tinyurl.com/3r6ub7ad up to £42,000 Glasgow #charityjob
There are 31 days until Christmas. 🎅🎁❄️🎄If you're looking for an unforgettable gift for a love one, opera tickets keep the festive magic alive, even longer. Check our our gift guide: www.scottishopera.org.uk/gift-guide/
Scottish Opera's revival of Puccini's La bohème continues its Scottish tour this week – we take a look... www.theskinny.co.uk/theatre/show... @scottishopera.bsky.social
Modernist Classic: Scottish Opera's La bohème returns - The Skinny
As its Scottish tour continues, we delve into Scottish Opera's revival of Puccini's La bohème by directors and designers Barbe & Doucet.
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Our timelapse shows the crew of Puccini's La bohème bringing Barbe & Doucet's fabulous vision for this dazzling production to life. There are just two more chances to see it in Glasgow: www.scottishopera.org.uk/shows/la-boh...
Last week we celebrated the birthday to our dear friend, Dame Janet Baker. 🥰 In June, Dame Janet attended a London recital by our 24/25 Emerging Artists. At this joyful occasion, the group met Dame Janet, who passed on her wisdom to the group. A very special moment, indeed.
Gluck's fabulous score. Gravity defying acrobatics. A phenomenal cast and orchestra. Yaron Lifschitz’s staging of Oprheus and Eurydice had it all. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - The Guardian. Thank you to Edinburgh International Festival, Opera Australia, Opera Queensland, The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Circa.
Ravel's L’heure espagnole & Walton's The Bear – laughter, scandal and a touch of emotion. 🐻 We’re returning to Lammermuir Festival with two comedies facing the darkly hilarious aspects of betrayal and infidelity head on. 🎫: www.scottishopera.org.uk/.../l-heure-...
"This is operetta, not only for the nostalgic, but for the now." Scottish Opera impresses with a double-bill of cultural-political satire, one classic, one new. #ScottishOpera #TrialByJury #AMatterOfMisconduct #EdinburghTheatre #GSComedy
Review: Trial By Jury / A Matter of Misconduct – Scottish Opera
★★★★ With its latest double bill, Scottish Opera offers a study in contrast and continuity: the enduring power of satire, from the gleefully anarchic world of Gilbert and Sullivan to the all-too-familiar farce of contemporary British politics. "Trial by Jury", given a zany reboot as a reality courtroom TV show, shares the stage with the premiere of "A Matter of Misconduct!", a new one-act operetta by Emma Jenkins and composer Toby Hession.
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🎭 Are you an opera maker, producer, or part of an opera company?Join us on Wednesday 25 June alongside other opera companies (10:30–12:00 BST) for an open online meeting to discuss the creation of a representative body for the UK opera sector. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-opera-s... 📸: Julie Howden
REVIEW "⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Scintillating" for THE MERRY WIDOW from @scottishopera.bsky.social at the Festival Theatre www.alledinburghtheatre.com/the-merry-wi... "a scintillating new adaptation" says @rcmahar.bsky.social Rebecca "bringing its setting into the 20th century, & its sensibilities into the 21st."
Season 2025/26 - a Season to captivate, inspire and transform. 🌟 Find out more and take a look at our brochure, here: www.scottishopera.org.uk/what-s-on/20... Become a Friend of Scottish Opera by Monday 19 May to take advantage of priority booking and discounted tickets for the 2025/26 Season.
"We’re one step away from people swinging off the chandelier" Director John Savournin (@johnsavournin.bsky.social) has adapted THE MERRY WIDOW from 1900s Paris to 1950s New York for @scottishopera.bsky.social 💃
All Guns Blazing: Scottish Opera's The Merry Widow – The Skinny
We speak to John Savournin, director of Scottish Opera's new productions of The Merry Widow and Trial by Jury, on the updating of classic operetta for modern audiences and the experience of…
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Make waves with our 2025/2026 Season! 🌊 We're announcing our new season on Wednesday 30 April. 📆
From our April issue (out this week), our Scottish theatre highlights inc. @stellarquines.bsky.social @ntsonline.bsky.social @scottishopera.bsky.social
Scottish Theatre Highlights: April 2025 - The Skinny
April offers a wide variety of new work from Stellar Quines, Scottish Opera, Dundee Rep and more – here's our pick of what's in store this month.
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