Why Was the Roadmap for Scottish Opera Buried?; Jamie Mcgrigor Asks Why the Results of a Report Into Scotland's National Opera Company Have Not Been Made Public

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Picture the scene. Tosca, Puccini's eponymous heroine, driven to take her own life, teeters on the edge of the parapet with only death awaiting her below. The sense of drama is immense and the parallels with Scottish Opera's plight cannot be ignored. Scotland's national opera company will perform Tosca later this year, yet in the real drama being played out it is Scottish Opera's survival which is at stake.

Scottish Opera is in crisis and its plight makes a mockery of the Executive's claim that it wishes to see the national companies continue to flourish. Why then is Scottish Opera underfunded compared with those in England and Wales? Why is Scotland's national opera company teetering on the edge of the abyss? Why have the findings of the independent report by Sir Peter Jonas, commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council, been buried?

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Why Was the Roadmap for Scottish Opera Buried?; Jamie Mcgrigor Asks Why the Results of a Report Into Scotland's National Opera Company Have Not Been Made Public

Jonas warned of the erosion of the company's artistic standards and the danger of it succumbing to part-time status if inadequate funding continued. He argued that, if current funding levels ...

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