Glasgow Grand Opera Society
The Glasgow Grand Opera Society, known by its members and audiences alike as simply 'The Grand', was an
Charles Manners used profits from a successful season of his Moody-Manners Opera Company in Glasgow in 1906 to help create the Glasgow Grand Opera Society, under its first conductor R Hutton Malcolm. Its original purpose was to augment touring Grand Opera Companies' choruses, but in 1911 mounted its first independent production, Gounod's Faust.
For all of the 1930s,
Annual performances of Glasgow Grand resumed in 1946 with Carmen.
Although challenged from the early 1960s by the professional Scottish Opera, established by Sir Alexander Gibson, (who had conducted the Society in 1954), the company continued to produce major annual productions until 1999.
Selected production history
Year | Productions[6][7] |
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1911 | Faust |
1934 | Idomeneo, The Bartered Bride |
1935 | The Trojans
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1936 | Beatrice and Benedict, Benvenuto Cellini, The Faithful Warrior (Schubert)[8]
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References
- ^ "Erik Chisholm - Home Page". www.erikchisholm.com.
- ^ a b "Glasgow Grand Opera Society | Opera Scotland". www.operascotland.org.
- ^ Production Programme – L'Oracolo and Dido & Aeneas – Glasgow Grand Opera Society 1994
- ^ Letter containing biographical notes – Wynne Evans 1994
- ^ Graeme Smith – The Theatre Royal: Entertaining a Nation; published 2008
- ^ Production Programme – Die Fledermaus – Glasgow Grand Opera Society 1999
- ^ Glasgow Grand Opera Society 75th Anniversary Programme 1981
- ^ Gramophone May 1936 Page 12