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Scottish Opera
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Company founded in Glasgow in 1962, largely on the initiative of Alexander Gibson. It had from the start an adventurous policy; one of the only two operas in its first season was Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. Until 1975 it performed mainly in the King's Theatre in Glasgow, but in that year it moved to a permanent home in the refurbished Theatre Royal. The company tours in Scotland and increasingly also to English cities. An unusual initiative is Opera-Go-Round, which since 1978 has taken out to small towns and villages throughout Scotland specially adapted opera productions, performed by a small cast to a piano accompaniment.
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