There’s a debate in Scotland over the fate of Scottish Opera. The company has been a big critical success, but it’s broke and in dancer of going out of business or being scaled back considerably. “Scottish Opera is, for those outside Scotland, one of the great cultural achievements of Scotland, and one of the great ambassadors for Scotland’s commitment to high culture. The Scottish Parliament is now the custodian of one of the great cultural institutions of the United Kingdom and people will be looking from all round the world to see how Scottish Opera now fares under this new autonomous government.”