Primary Schools Tour

Our Primary Schools Tour helps teachers all over Scotland deliver aspects of A Curriculum for Excellence. These children’s operas make learning exciting, challenging and creative and allow pupils to participate in a high-quality, day-long music theatre workshop, ending with a performance for parents and guests.

Each school that participates receives:

High quality teaching resources, including a teachers' support pack to help introduce the music and related activities.
An advance visit from a specialist choral musician.
A day-long workshop with a team of highly experienced arts education specialists and performers.
A 30 minute performance for family, friends and schoolmates to share.

ll hail Qin Shi Huang – the first Emperor of China, destined to rule his Empire forever. After all, didn’t he drink the Elixir of Life, a potion that promises immortality? Not such a great promise when that elixir turns out to be a deadly poison. Now the afterlife awaits, but even a dead Emperor needs an army. So, over many years, he’s gathered a vast hoard to watch over him after death – 8,000 soldiers, horses and chariots, all armoured and armed to the teeth. And every one of them moulded from clay…

Join Scottish Opera in telling the true story of Emperor Qin’s incredible 2,000 year old terracotta army, and the clay warriors that continue to amaze and delight millions all over the world to this very day.

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Join Scottish Opera in commemorating one of the most dramatic periods in Scottish history; the Jacobite Risings.

Let’s go back in time, exactly 300 years ago, to the year 1719. The Jacobites and their Spanish allies converge upon Glen Sheil in the Western Highlands to prepare themselves for battle with the approaching Hanoverian troops. But the Jacobites have more to worry about than their enemies! Will in-fighting, missed opportunities and poor communications prove to be their undoing?

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In the year 1405 the great Dragon Throne Emperor of China, Zhu Di, has decided it is time his nation expanded its influence beyond the edge of the known world and into the mysterious Western Sea.

He assembles an enormous fleet of mighty ships with 28,000 crew, and fills them with all the treasure and riches of China. Enough to buy the gratitude and friendship of those unknown lands beyond the setting sun. Only one man could be trusted to lead such a dangerous and important mission-- the great Admiral Zheng Ha, the Dragon of the Western Sea!

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Primary Schools Tour 2020 is supported by: Aberdeen Endowments Trust, Alma & Leslie Wolfson Charitable Trust, David & June Gordon Memorial Trust, Educational Institute of Scotland, Glasgow Airport FlightPath Fund, Harbinson Charitable Trust, Hayward Sanderson Trust, Martin Connell Charitable Trust, Mickel Fund, The Cookie Matheson Charitable Trust, The Cruden Foundation, The R J Larg Family Trust, The Stevenston Charitable Trust, Thomson Charitable Trust and Scottish Opera’s Education Angels

Opera Factory supported by: The Mickel Fund, The Robertson Trust, Astor of Hever Trust and Scottish Opera’s Education Angels

Helping Kids Find Their Voice

Warriors! The Emperor's Incredible Army

1719!

The Dragon of the Western Sea

SPINNING SONGS

OPERA UNWRAPPED

from the mud to the stars