The embattled Scottish Opera will be branching out, becoming more adventurous, says its chairman. “I would like to see Scottish Opera doing West Side Story. It is a great piece, one of Bernstein’s best and a dead ringer for Glasgow. This is because the Puerto Ricans and New Yorkers in the 1950s mirror the razor gangs in Glasgow of the same period. I am very keen on playing in a stadium. I am very keen on that. I saw Teresa Berganza singing Carmen in the Stade Bercy in Paris in front of about 18,000 people and it was electrifying.”