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.

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 …

🎉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.

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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 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

Masterpiece, fridge magnet, phone case … opera: how Hokusai’s The Great Wave hit the stage

🚨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. 👇
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/31/lily-a...

It’s time to surrender to the drama of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. 💔
🎟️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 👇
www.scottishopera.org.uk/shows/the-marriage-of-fi...

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

#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...

@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/

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.

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

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...

A group of people stands in front of a Grand piano. Dame Janet stands in the middle surrounded by them. Kira to her left and Chloe to her right link arms. Meghan and Ross stand to the left and Edward to the right. Everyone is smiling.

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.

Thank you, Holly! <3

A man dressed in a black suits is held up in the air by his calves by four acrobats. They are shirtless while wearing black trousers. In the right of a picture, the Chorus of Scottish Opera stand in a diamond-shaped huddle. They are wearing purple and green tracksuits. They are singing in front of a screen which has in small font at the top 'Where is Eurydice?'

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-...

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.

"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

🎭 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."

📣WE ARE NOW ON GENERAL SALE 📣

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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.

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…

"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 💃

Make waves with our 2025/2026 Season! 🌊
We're announcing our new season on Wednesday 30 April. 📆

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.

From our April issue (out this week), our Scottish theatre highlights inc. @stellarquines.bsky.social @ntsonline.bsky.social @scottishopera.bsky.social

The Opera Highlights team stand to the left of the photograph in a line. One of them is pointing at a Highland cow. In front of them is a river, and on the other side of the river is a friendly Highland cow approaching them. Behind the Highlight cow and the river, is the Opera Highlights tour van. It is black, and on the side it says, 'All Aboard for a first-class night out'. The sky is cloudy and grey.

Moosic so good, even the coos want tickets 🎶
The Opera Highlights Tour steams into its penultimate week of touring across Scotland. Durness, Thurso, Campbeltown, Anstruther and Dundee still to go! 📌

We're in the final stretch of Opera Highlights rehearsals before we head out on tour! 24 venues from 25 Jan - 22 March and one incredible show set in a Scottish train station. There's hellos, goodbyes, and crossed wires - just like every good opera! ♥ Featuring music from Handel to Tchaikovsky.

This shows two screen shots from the Apple notes app, super imposed onto a photograph of the Theatre Royal, Glasgow. The notes say INS: -The first time seeing Emilia Marty -Glasgow Theatre Royal date nights -That moment when the house lights dim -Lemon groves -Tink-a-tank (Come see our Trial by Jury) -Bringing a pal to the opera -Solo trips to the opera -Humming waltzes from The Merry Widow all the way home -Cement mixers -Romanticising waiting in train stations -Sending secret messages via fans -That FOH team member at Edinburgh Festival Theatre who always remembers you 🥰 -Taking pictures at the final curtain call -Giving your neighbour a full plot summary (be the MVP we all love) -That first spoonful of interval ice cream -Appreciating the gorgeous interior of HMT Aberdeen -Wearing whatever you want and feeling fab -A Pre-show coffee at Eden Court's Riverside Cafe OUTS: -Being so late you miss the overture -Forgetting to buy a programme -“Opera is not for me” -"Wait you perform WHERE?" (loads of places, pal, keep up) -Waiting until last minute to book your tickets -Unwrapping sweets SUPER LOUDLY -Not sharing your sweets (criminal) -"I'll just check my Whatsapp quickly" 📲BESTIE NO - we can see u -Forgetting our U26 tickets are just £15 -"Maybe I'll skip the pre-show talk" (nooo come join us!) -Sleeping on the Opera Highlights touring schedule (plz, we could be around the corner from you) -Worrying about whether it's cringe to post about your night at the theatre on Insta (DO IT - we love main character energy) -The mad Google search of "opera plot" five minutes before curtain up (srsly - our programme tells you this and more) -Thinking opera is only for big stages (anywhere can be an opera house )

Hello Bluesky! Here's our ins and outs for 2025...
But more importantly, will you be IN the audience for one of our productions in 2025?