Scottish Opera

Scottish Opera is Scotland’s national opera company and the largest performing arts organisation in Scotland. The Company was founded in 1962 by Sir Alexander Gibson ‘to lay the treasures of opera at the feet of the people of Scotland’. The Company produces world-class work at every scale and tours extensively across Scotland to ensure performances are within reach of as many of the country’s very dispersed population as possible. In 2021 the Company performed nearly 200 performances of its Pop-up Opera Roadshow to socially distanced audiences of 11,014 people - one of the most extensive touring programmes of any European opera company and a much-valued contribution to Scotland’s cultural and artistic life. This season, Pop-up Opera and Opera Highlights are back on the road in three tours, visiting over 50 venues across Scotland's mainland and islands.