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was critically acclaimed, but also was highly draining of the company's financial resources. In 2004, a financial restructuring plan had called for the elimination of 88 jobs, including all 34 members of the chorus, and the suspension of the entire 2005–06 season. In protest,
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Recent commissions include the Five:15 Operas Made in Scotland, part of a five-year research and development project to find the next generation of opera-makers, composers and librettists.
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Alex Reedijk became general director of the company in 2006. In August 2007, effective the same month, the company announced the appointment of Francesco Corti as its next music director.
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Scottish Opera dealt with various financial troubles, related to lack of funding and accusations of fiscal profligacy, during the first part of the 2000s. Its cycle of Richard Wagner's
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in Venice, tours in Germany, Austria, Portugal, France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Iceland and recent years including
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announced his resignation in December 2004, effective at the end of the 2004–05 season.
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re-opening it as the first national opera house for Scotland in October 1975 with
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Scottish Opera has also staged many successful productions abroad, including
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at the Vienna International Festival and the European premiere of
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It's a Curious Story – The Tale of Scottish Opera 1962–1987
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No. 8, June 1963, New Saltire Ltd., Edinburgh, pp. 5 - 18
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Index

Opera in Scotland

opera
national performing arts companies of Scotland
Glasgow
performing arts
Alexander Gibson
Theatre Royal
Scottish Television
Die Fledermaus
Ambassador Theatre Group
Sir Richard Armstrong
TMA Award
Macbeth
Der Rosenkavalier
Die Walküre
Siegfried
South Bank Show
Ring Cycle
The Two Widows
Edinburgh International Festival
Albert Herring
Egisto (opera)
Peter Grimes
Tristan und Isolde
MacMillan
Sir Alexander Gibson
John Mauceri
Sir Richard Armstrong
Tom Service

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