Opera Scotland

Capitol Cinema Aberdeen

Opened 1933.

Design: Alexander Marshall MacKenzie.

A huge and palatial cinema in art deco style, with a stage suitable for live shows and pantomime, the Capitol has more recently been used as a venue for rock concerts and as a bar and night club. It has also been used to house simple operatic stagings when the city's principal theatre, His Majesty's, was undergoing renovation work.