Scottish Opera

As Scotland's national opera company, Scottish Opera is committed to bringing the widest range of opera, performed to highest standards, to the maximum audience throughout the country with one of the busiest touring calandars in the opera world. The company's touring productions can range in scale from intimate chamber performances to grand traditional productions - employing upward of 200 singers, stagecrew, costume and wig makers, props and set builders, lighting and sound teams, the Orchestra of Scottish Opera and more.

Scottish Opera believes that opera is for all, able to move audiences young and old through romanticism, drama and the world's greatest music.

The company has the longest - running established education and outreach unit of any opera house in Europe, with an incredible year round programme of education activity for all age groups, specifically targeteted groups ( for example, children and adults with special needs) and curriculum based activities provided for primary schools in scotland's thirty-two local authorities.