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Tayside Opera
Tayside Opera is a amateur Opera company based in the area around Dundee and Tayside. It is a company that has been running since 1968 and is mainly focused around grand opera. There have been over 35 operas staged and 67 performances by Tayside in the last 54 years. In that 54 years, it has been led by 17 presidents. It is still running and has a secure future enjoying the patronage and support of many Dundee individuals and Trusts.

Presidents
Throughout the years Tayside opera has cycled through many well known presidents. They are now currently being led into their next opera- Die Fledermaus- by their current president- Peter Gackowski-. A list of their previous presidents would go as followed:

1968-1970- Sidney Gillis 1970-1977- Ian Mortimer 1977-1980- Ron MacDonald 1980-1986- William Dewar 1986-1988- David Button 1988-1991- Gladys Tennant 1991-1992- James Beale 1992-1995- Graeme Anderson 1995-1999- Phillip Kearns 1999-2002- Neil Mudie 2002-2005- Richard Erskine 2005-2006- James Gray 2006-2008- Marion Spoering 2008-2009- Russell Malcolm 2009-2011- Philippa Sidle 2011-2016- James Gray 2016-2022- Peter Gackowski

Operas
Throughout the many, many years of Tayside opera they have performed every single year of their history -Excluding 2010 for bad weather 2020 and 2021 due to Covid 19-, with the very first being Don Giovanni in 1968 and the latest being Macbeth in 2019. We look forward to Die Fledermaus this year, in 2022 and we hope to see what the future holds for Tayside opera.

Sponsors
Many thanks to all those past and present members, musical directors, and support staff. To Eden Gackowski for this Wiki page. In the last decade Richard Johnston, Moira Docherty and Robert Duncan, plus all the rest of the Tayside Opera staff for making this possible. We hope to have them all into carry on into the future so that Dundee can continue to enjoy Grand Opera.