A backdrop is a character in itself! 🎨🎭 Step behind the scenes as we unveil a stunning backdrop for Donizetti's Don Pasquale. 😻Our 2014 video shows how former Head Scenic Artist Kelvin Guy brought Barbe & Doucet's vision alive for this comic opera. youtu.be/bYrmkZNJcXQ

We couldn't agree more!🎶The Guardian #AlbertHerring

The latest screening of Josefine takes place at the Venice Biennale on Friday 30 August in the Palazzo del Cinema. Our animated opera-short is also coming soon to a screen near you, too! Details coming soon. Find out more about Josefine: scottishopera.org.uk/shows/josefine/

Meticulously designed by Kat Heath, director Daisy Evans' nostalgic production of Britten and Crozier's Albert Herring celebrates youth and community spirit. Caught between tradition and high-jinks, can Albert maintain his reputation? scottishopera.org.uk/shows/albert-h… 📸: Julie Howden

Our cast have been hard at work preparing the recordings for our 2025 Primary Schools Tour, The Tale o’ Tam. Running from 3 February to 28 June, it deliver aspects of A Curriculum For Excellence. Ready to bring The Tale o' Tam to your school? 👇 scottishopera.org.uk/join-in/opera-…

From Flute to Herring! 🎶▶🐟 We're excited to welcome back former #EmergingArtist Glen Cunningham back to Scottish Opera as Albert Herring. 🌟 No stranger to Britten, Glen sang Francis Flute in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (2022). Book tickets: scottishopera.org.uk/shows/albert-h…

Love to sing? 🎼 Join our community choir - registrations are now open! No experience is necessary - all you need is enthusiasm and curiosity! The choir enjoys singing a mix of popular, folk, world music, classical and opera. To join the choir, visit: scottishopera.org.uk/join-in/commun…

In 2023/24, Breath Cycle helped over 5000 people living with respiratory conditions. Participants can also sign up for online song writing workshops led by composer Gareth Williams and poet Martin O’Connor. Find out more and sign up👇 ow.ly/pFrZ50Tcv4C

It's opening night for Britten's Albert Herring at Lammermuir Festival! Tonight our cast bring Loxford's May Day Festival to life, as poor Albert Herring finds himself going from shy mother's boy to reluctant star of the event! Book tickets: scottishopera.org.uk/shows/albert-h…

Congratulations to Oper Leipzig on their International Opera Awards nomination for Rediscovered Work for their recent production of Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots! Musgrave's opera was premiered by Scottish Opera 48 years ago on 6 September 1977 ow.ly/Xm7Q50TfxZj

★★★★ Review: Albert Herring – Keenly observed update of Britten’s satirical takedown of parochial prudishness Scottish Opera 👇 thestage.co.uk/reviews/review…

Here's my review of Scottish Opera's Albert Herring, Britten's village comedy produced at this year's Lammermuir Festival. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️in today's The Times and The Sunday Times. See it in Glasgow and Edinburgh this autumn. Times Culture The Times and The Sunday Times Scotland thetimes.com/culture/classi…