Opera in Scotland boy in the Scottish Opera's avant garde 1990s production of "The Trojans". As a teenager he performed with Scottish Opera at Covent Garden Royal Opera House in a critically acclaimed production of "Carmen". Other notable Scottish singers Production personnel Stage directors Scottish Opera in the context of the Performing Arts Scotland has only one dedicated opera house, namely the Theatre Royal, Glasgow which has been the home of Scottish Opera since 1975. Owned by Scottish Opera, the Theatre Royal has been managed since 2005 by the Ambassador Theatre Group. Scottish Opera is the national opera company, one of the five
Carreras Cigarette Factory gigantic effigies of black cats flanking the entrance and colourful painted details. When the factory was converted into offices in 1961 the Egyptian detailing was lost, but it was restored during a renovation in the late 1990s and replicas of the cats were placed outside the entrance. As demand for cigarettes increased during the First World War, the Carreras Tobacco Company expanded its business in the 1920s, like many other tobacco companies. Carreras had outgrown its Arcadia cigarette factory in City Road, London, so it closed the facility and opened a new Arcadia Works in 1928 in Mornington Crescent, Camden.