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	Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Scottish Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		SCOTTISH Opera is reaching the parts that other national companies don't with a new autumn tour...
		SCOTTISH Opera yesterday unveiled a season of four major operas as its new director, Alex Reedijk...
		SCOTTISH Opera's return to the stage faced the threat of industrial action yesterday after...
	heritage.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=149 (468 words)

	Opera Today : Handel Unwrapped by Scottish Opera: “Tamerlano” at tea-time
		In opera, Rossini, born in 1892- the year after Mozart died, is the successor of the great master and, when performed as perceptively as in the “Cenerentola” that debuted at the Houston Grand Opera on January 27, his rightful heir.
		Handel Unwrapped by Scottish Opera: “Tamerlano” at tea-time
		Many opera houses already have outreach programmes, and pre-performance talks, but this most open and democratic of formats which encourages people to just pop into the theatre after work, or school, seems to work particularly well as a blue-print for extending and deepening the company’s relationship with its local population.
	www.operatoday.com /content/2006/11/handel_unwrappe.php (1174 words)

	Scotsman.com Entertainment - the complete entertainment, culture and arts guide to Scotland
		Scottish Opera has only survived a series of financial crises thanks to interventions from the Scottish Executive, including a £2.1 million injection in 1999 and a further £5 million package over three years in 2001.
		Scottish Opera used to give eight to ten productions a year, and for the last three has presented only six, which could become as low as three under present funding levels.
		In what was perceived as a message to tighten its belt, Scottish Opera’s funding from the SAC was frozen for three years in January, although the other three national companies - Scottish Ballet, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra - had slight increases to take account of inflation.
	www.arts.scotsman.com /headlines_specific.cfm?id=7571 (804 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts news \| Scottish Opera's music director resigns amid acrimony
		He will leave Scottish Opera at precisely the same time that Paul Daniel quits his post as music director of English National Opera, and speculation is already beginning that Sir Richard might become his successor there.
		Scottish Opera receives £7.4m in subsidy as compared, for instance, with the £16m granted to ENO.
		The burgeoning financial problems led, in February, to Scottish Opera being advanced £4m of the subsequent year's budget to keep it afloat.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1364336,00.html (699 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts news \| Scottish Opera gets grant advance
		Senior management at Scottish Opera have called an emergency meeting with staff today to explain how they hope to extricate the company from a financial crisis which is threatening huge job losses.
		Scottish Opera is no stranger to perilous finances: it has received around 20 bail outs in the last 40 years.
		Although Scottish Opera management has made it clear to staff that redundancies are to be expected, unions say they are unaware what the scale of the job losses will be.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1142056,00.html (699 words)

	Classical Music News:: The Classical Source News:: Scottish Opera's Leading Soprano Attacks Scots Government Arts ...
		Scottish Opera's biggest star has launched a scathing attack on the Executive's "pathetic" arts policy, contrasting lavish spending on the new parliament building with penny-pinching on the nation's cultural life.
		Scottish Opera soprano Lisa Milne told Scotland on Sunday that the arts world was struggling to get proper support from government.
		Michael Matheson, the [opposition] Scottish National Party's culture spokesman, echoed Milne's criticism of the handling of the Scottish Opera crisis, but argued that the company, which has ran up debts in recent years, must live within its means.
	www.classicalsource.com /db_control/db_news.php?id=281 (890 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scottish Opera
		TROUBLED Scottish Opera has reached out to New Zealand for its new boss, gambling on the director of a company with a quarter of its budget to guide its recovery from crisis.
		SCOTTISH Opera will tour the country with just seven singers and a piano, the company revealed...
		SCOTTISH Opera will "emerge from the dark" in April 2006 with a season of four full-scale operas...
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=149&id=683572004&20040616055003 (451 words)

	Guardian \| Scottish Opera to lose half its company
		Almost half the company of Scottish Opera is to be made redundant under restructuring plans which critics say could end opera of an international standard in Scotland.
		Scottish Opera's board went to the Scottish executive to seek extra funding, but the culture minister, Frank McAveety, said he would only offer £7m for restructuring.
		Scottish Opera is no stranger to perilous finances: it has received 20 bail-outs in the last 40 years.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4941857-110427,00.html (550 words)

	Scottish Opera - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Scottish Opera, Scotland’s national opera company, based in Glasgow.
		Scottish Opera owns the Theatre Royal in Glasgow, one of Scotland’s principal...
		Scottish Opera - the website for Scotland's national opera company...
	encarta.msn.com /Scottish_Opera.html (226 words)

	Sunday Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Alexander Gibson Opera School in Glasgow is organising an ambitious programme for its 30 specialist students and 100 volunteer choral singers and aiming to keep audiences alive when Scottish Opera goes dark.
		Opera production would be cost-efficient for the school because it uses the resource of other students studying at the college: sets are designed and made by people studying in-house, and the orchestra is provided by musicians also on degree courses at the RSAMD.
		Scotland’s first and only opera school, it was launched formally in 1998 and is named after the founder and artistic director of Scottish Opera who died three years earlier.
	www.sundayherald.com /print43777 (377 words)

	ArtsJournal Music: Daily Arts News
		Scottish Opera Chorus Gets The Official Axe That the chorus members of the Scottish Opera are about to lose their jobs has been common knowledge for weeks, ever since details of the Scottish Executive's plan to "save" the company hit the press.
		The chorus members of Scottish Opera, who may lose their jobs as part of the proposed restructuring of the troubled organization, are publicly attacking music director Sir Richard Armstrong for his "inappropriate and elitist programming," "prima donna tantrums," and "systematic exclusion" of the chorus from programs.
		Scottish Opera Crisis At The Wire "The future of Scottish Opera was hanging in the balance last night after members of the board failed to agree to an Executive-sponsored rescue package.
	www.artsjournal.com /music/archive20040601.shtml (7385 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| The saga of Scottish opera
		Their £7.5 million pound share of the Scottish Arts Council's grant has to cover the costs of a full opera season, staffing onstage and behind the scenes and a string of educational and community projects.
		Meanwhile, the Scottish Arts Council, under pressure from politicians to spread its £30m budget and £25m lottery funds around more art forms, particularly towards indigenous arts, has been, in turn, pressuring Scottish Opera to find ways of keeping the costs down.
		But Scottish Opera argues that this constant patching of emergency funding is symptomatic of a much deeper problem.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1261773.stm (612 words)

	The British Theatre Guide: 88 Jobs Losses at Scottish Opera
		Scottish Ballet will be split from the opera company and the company's current home, the Glasgow Theatre Royal, will be leased to another third party.
		The Scottish Opera Board has come up with a clear vision of its future role in bringing opera to the greatest possible number of venues and people throughout Scotland.
		The Scottish Executive has agreed the necessary investment of up to £7 million to achieve these plans, including provision to mitigate the temporary losses which may be suffered by the Edinburgh Festival Theatre during the transition period.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /news/sojobloss.htm (537 words)

	SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL - FINANCIAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF THE NATIONAL ARTS COMPANIES (Appendices)
		Scottish Opera will maintain a programme of education and audience development activities through "Scottish Opera For All", presenting a wide range of music, drama and movement programmes for children and adults throughout Scotland.
		Scottish Opera is required to maintain an effective and progressive equal opportunities policy.
		Scottish Opera will present SAC with an update of its marketing strategies which are of particular relevance to increasing attendances from within the core audience and attracting a new audience as part of the 1998/99 Four Year Plan.
	www.scotland.gov.uk /library2/doc11/sacmr-04.asp (3824 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Entertainment - An operatic tragedy - Wales shows us how it's done (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A long history of wrangling between ministers and Scottish Opera came to a head last year when the Executive refused to increase funding to make up for what it saw as a series of overspends by the company.
		Brian Monteith, the Scottish Tory culture spokesman, added: "One of the major problems for Scottish Opera is that the Executive has had the desire for a high-profile opera company but has never had the will to finance it.
		For many years, Scottish Opera did suffer with poor financial management and kept over-spending each year as if they thought that ministers would never dare to shut them down or say that enough was enough.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /entertainment.cfm?id=2061442005 (1158 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Opinion - Comment - Executive must tell Scottish Opera the score (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was 1961, and barely a year later Scottish Opera was launching its first repertoire, with Puccini’s Madam Butterfly and Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande on the programme.
		Scottish Opera has, for reasons hard to discern, acquired pariah status.
		The idea seems to be that if Scottish Opera became a medium-scale touring company, bringing opera highlights to theatres up and down the country, that would be ideal.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /comment.cfm?id=436412004 (955 words)

	Scottish Arts Council - Future of Scottish Opera agreed
		The Executive has agreed to invest in Scottish Opera as the best means of ensuring high quality provision of opera in Scotland, subject to the Board and management ensuring that strong financial and business planning controls are in place to keep to the agreed business plan and available funding.
		Core Scottish Opera posts are expected to reduce from the present 208 to approximately 120.
		The Scottish Executive has agreed the necessary investment of up to £7 million to achieve these plans, including provision to mitigate the temporary losses which may be suffered by the Edinburgh Festival Theatre during the transition period.
	www.scottisharts.org.uk /1/latestnews/1000353.aspx (725 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Scottish Opera must end rows and settle its cash crisis
		SCOTTISH Opera should back away from rows and brinkmanship and settle its funding crisis quietly, the principal of Scotland’s leading music and drama school has urged.
		Last week a leaked letter from Scottish Opera’s chief executive, Christopher Barron, to opera staff was the latest to suggest that the company had reached a depressing impasse.
		Mr Wallace said he did not think the Scottish Executive would let Scottish Opera fail, which would be "a disaster for Scottish Opera and a disaster for Scotland", he said.
	news.scotsman.com /entertainment.cfm?id=451662004 (861 words)

	classical music - andante - scottish opera in negotiations to sell theatre royal in glasgow
		Scottish Opera acquired the Theatre Royal in the early 1970s when it was still a rising newcomer on the arts scene.
		Scottish Opera fared well last year with a revival of Tosca, but audiences for Michael Tippett's The Knot Garden, a more difficult work, are said to have been poor.
		Scottish Opera and the ATG refused to comment on the details of the deal yesterday, stressing that no contract had been signed.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25117 (1101 words)

	Opera News > The Met Opera Guild
		he erstwhile chairman of both the Scottish Ballet and Scottish Opera's board of directors has warned Jack McConnell, the First Minister of Scotland, that unless urgent action is taken, Scotland's national opera company could be forced to merge with an English company in order to survive, The Scotsman reported.
		The besieged Scottish Opera, currently undergoing a "dark season" in which no main-stage productions will be presented, inked a deal with the Scottish Executive earlier this year by which eighty-eight full-time staff, including its entire chorus, would be fired.
		The reductions came as the result of the company being forced to borrow against its annual Â£7.5m ($13.34 million) grant from the Scottish government, which Scottish Opera administrators had argued was too little a sum to sucessfully operate a national company.
	www.metoperafamily.org /operanews/news/pressrelease.aspx?id=997 (416 words)

	Edwards, Sian - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Edwards, Sian
		She has appeared as guest conductor with leading British orchestras, and made her opera debut with the Scottish Opera in 1986, performing Kurt Weill's Mahagonny.
		Her Glyndebourne debut was in 1987 with La Traviata, and in 1988 she was the first woman to conduct at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, with The Knot Garden.
		She led the premiere of Turnage's Greek at the Munich Biennale in 1988, and The Gambler at the English National Opera (ENO) in 1990; she was music director at the ENO 1993–96, conducting Jenůfa in her first season and Khovanshchina in 1994.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Edwards,+Sian (174 words)

	New Statesman: We can t afford an opera company - Scottish Opera - Brief Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Not only would that be too much of a sharp intake of icy breath for the Scottish establishment, the Arts Council has made a three-year commitment to Scottish Opera and the Fat Lady will continue to perform her arias until 2003 at least.
		Scottish writers are being read everywhere, winning Booker and Whitbread prizes and each week brings news of film deals or options being taken.
		Scottish books are readily available to an avid public, either to buy or to borrow, and they deal with matters intelligible to most Scots.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4476_129/ai_60805690 (966 words)

	Christie - Scottish Opera
		When Scottish Opera was seeking to incorporate projection into their set for the first time, they knew that triggering different images from DVD onto difficult fl surfaces would be inherently difficult.
		Scottish Opera’s lighting manager, Ian Irving, explained that Götterdämmerung had prompted the upgrade to a 6500 ANSI lumen device, in view of the fact that projection from the circle front would be onto a matt fl set.
		And because the sidewalls are silver mirrored, Scottish Opera is able to increase the drama with an expanded image.
	www.christiedigital.com /recentInstallations/largeEvents/scottishOpera/scottishOpera.asp (567 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Definition of OPERA
		In one sense his operas were a reaction against the spectacular ‘singers’ operas' of Meyerbeer which he had seen in his Parisian youth.
		Nationalist opera was principally an E. European development, beginning with Glinka's A Life for the Tsar in 1836 and continuing with Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Borodin's Prince Igor.
		Operas by the It.-born Menotti and by Barber and Argento followed the European tradition, and qualities of exuberance, raciness, and wit which the Americans bring to mus.
	www.classicalarchives.com /dict/opera.html (1553 words)

	The Scotsman - Scotland - Scottish Opera faces audiences' confidence crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		SCOTTISH Opera is threatened with a "crisis of confidence" among audiences, driven by the cash-strapped company’s shortfall in new productions.
		His warning that audiences could turn away from the opera if its cash crisis cannot be resolved was echoed yesterday by the managers of the opera’s touring venues in Inverness and Aberdeen.
		The Scottish Executive is reported to have turned down a request for more funding on top of a £7.5 million annual Scottish Arts Council grant, while officials say they want a long-term solution to the opera’s woes.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=1243402003 (533 words)

	BBC News \| Scotland \| Scottish Opera faces the music
		Bosses from Scottish Opera have told MSPs they were not guilty of mismanaging the company which almost closed with severe debts.
		Scottish Opera was given £2.1m by the Scottish Executive last week, just days before it would have been declared bankrupt.
		Among them is former Scottish Opera general manager Ruth Mackenzie, who resigned in June, and chairman Sandy Orr, who resigned a month later.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_523000/523892.stm (288 words)

	Scotsman.com Entertainment - the complete entertainment, culture and arts guide to Scotland
		Mr MacMillan told the show that the opera’s enthusiasm had been battered and shedding the chorus was extraordinarily ignorant.
		The columnist, Norman Lebrecht, indicated Scottish Opera has become a bitter subject for music-lovers world-wide, although the English and Welsh National Operas are also showing signs of weakness.
		Scottish Opera will cease mainscale productions in June 2005 for almost a year in a bid to balance its books under a deal agreed with the Scottish Executive.
	entertainment.scotsman.com /headlines_specific.cfm?id=9618 (525 words)

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