Scottish Country Dance of the Day

A number of operas have been set in Scotland, or based around Scottish themes.

The works of Walter Scott proved popular with nineteenth-century composers, and Shakespeare's "Scottish play" has also been adapted several times.

Most musical works are based on Scott's novels rather than his poetry:

• Bizet – La jolie fille de Perth

• Boieldieu, François-Adrien – La dame blanche (based on several works by Scott)

• Carafa, Michele – Le nozze di Lammermoor (1829) (The Bride of Lammermoor)

• Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (The Bride of Lammermoor)

• MacCunn, Hamish – Jeanie Deans (Heart of Midlothian)

• Mazzucato, Alberto La fidanzata di Lammermoor, 1834 (The Bride of Lammermoor)

• Ricci, Federico and Luigi Ricci – La prigione di Edimburgo, 1838 (Heart of Midlothian)

• Rossini, Gioachino – La donna del lago, based on the poem (The Lady of the Lake)

Based on the novel Ivanhoe, both Giovanni Pacini and Sir Arthur Sullivan (Ivanhoe, 1891) created operas.

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A small number of operas have been written in Scottish Gaelic, including:

• Sweeney, William (Libretto: Aonghas MacNeacail) An Turus 

• Jean-Paul Dessy and David Graham, (Libretto: Iain Finlay Macleod)​

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For more on Scottish Opera and Scottish influence on opera, click the famous Sydney Opera House, completed in 1973.  This dance is included in John Drewry's Australian Book (1994-1995).