The involvement of McCall Smith in The Friendship Oratorio was announced by Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop.
In 1741, the German-born English composer George Frederick Handel finished his "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days.
With those kinds of interpretive gestures, the Trinity performers constructed the architecture of the oratorio, tracing the birth, death and resurrection of Christ.
Alexander McCall Smith will write the libretto for The Friendship Oratorio, which it is hoped can form part of Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games events.
In fact, the opera is a little too pensive, too oratorio-like.
"I am delighted that at the heart of the Scottish team that will deliver The Friendship Oratorio in 2014 is master storyteller Alexander McCall Smith, " she said.
The most notable event so far in this year's celebrations has been a dramatic oratorio by Roberto De Simone, a gifted Neapolitan musicologist, composer and theatre director.
The buildings represented include Sir Paul's family home at Forthlin Road, the skyline of Liverpool, the Mull of Kintyre, London Bridge and Liverpool Cathedral - where Sir Paul's Liverpool Oratorio was first performed.
The work that brought Sir Michael Tippett to prominence was his oratorio, 'A Child of our Time' which he composed as a response to the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s.
The piece, a kind of sequel to the team's 2000 Nativity oratorio, "El Nino, " is in two halves, the first recounting the raising of Lazarus from the dead, the second the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
And sure enough, the retelling of Christ's last days through the eyes of Mary Magdalene is interlaced with heavy doses of modern social activism in this stirring new oratorio, composed by John Adams to a libretto compiled by Peter Sellars from texts both ancient and contemporary.
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