Glasgow Grand Opera Society

Its original purpose was to augment touring Grand Opera Companies' choruses, but in 1911 mounted its first independent production, Gounod's Faust.

In its Bizet Festival 1951, the Society included The Pearl Fishers, the first time in Britain that the opera had been performed in English.

From 1993, its annual productions moved to the New Athenaeum Theatre in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where it continued its tradition of breaking new ground with its performance of the Franco Leoni 1905 opera L'Oracolo in 1994, a Scottish premiere and the first production of that opera in the United Kingdom for 80 years.

Wynne Evans, then a 4th year student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, played San-Lui, the Oracle's son.

[5] 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.