"In the Dusk with the Light Behind Them" |
Tue, 23 Sep 2008Time: 7:15 pm
Venue: The Club for Acts and Actors, 20 Bedford Street, London. WC2E 9HP |
Jill Pert, the doyenne of D'Oyly Carte contralto principals, accompanied by Hilary Morgan, in a light-hearted look at Gilbert and Sullivan's ladies.
As performed at the Buxton Gilbert and Sullivan Festival |
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Martin Lamb |
Thu, 02 Oct 2008Time: 7:15 pm
Venue: Friends House, Euston Road. |
Martin Lamb will give a Gilbert and Sullivan lecture, with Illustrations and Singing, followed by a question and answer session.
Martin is a highly accomplished operetta performer: he made his West End debut as Sergeant Meryll in the D'Oyly Carte's 2002 production of The Yeomen of the Guard, and has since appeared in several roles for the G&S Opera Company. He is a frequent guest performer for Grim's Dyke Opera Company, performing in W S Gilbert's former home just outside London. |
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Mr Gilbert, Mr Sullivan, Mr Edison, Mr Berliner and Nipper |
Tue, 18 Nov 2008Time: 07:15 am
Venue: The Club for Acts and Actors, 20 Bedford Street, London. WC2E 9HP |
Gilbert and Sullivan in the earliest days of recorded sound, featuring cylinders played live on Mr Edison's wonderful invention, the talking phonograph.
Presented by Roger and Rosemary Wild |
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Seasonal Gathering |
Tue, 09 Dec 2008Time: 7:15 pm
Venue: The Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Holbourn |
The Society's Seasonal get together. With DVD presentation and bring and share wine and cheese buffet.
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Leon Berger and Stephen Brown |
Tue, 27 Jan 2009Time: 7:15 pm
Venue: The Club for Acts and Actors, 20 Bedford Street, London. WC2E 9HP |
Two of the most accomplished performers give us an evening of Gilbert and Sullivan, together with the occasional interestingly different items.
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Charles Court Opera |
Thu, 19 Feb 2009Time: 7:15 pm
Venue: The Club for Acts and Actors, 20 Bedford Street, London. WC2E 9HP |
Directed by John Savournin, Charles Court Opera will prsent "Scenes form the G & S Canon" including items from "Princess Ida" in its 125th Anniversary year.
Charles Court Opera, piloted by John Savournin in 2005 in the King Charles Court at Trinity College of Music, has come a long way in a few years. CCO works with leading young professionals: singers, directors, musical directors and designers. They promote an inclusive and open-minded approach to opera, aiming to bring the theatre to a wider audience, involving artists from a variety of performance backgrounds.
During the company's short life, CCO has produced ten new productions; their highly acclaimed The Mikado, Mozart's Impresario and Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri, Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, H.M.S. Pinafore, Ruddigore, The Pirates of Penzance, Cox and Box, and Britten’s Noye’s Fludde - a vast community project involving over a hundred school children from two London schools, their first and very successful pantomime Cinderella, and Iolanthe. They have played in a variety of venues across the United Kingdom, including The International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival (Buxton), Woodhouse Opera Festival (Surrey), The Rosemary Branch Pub Theatre (Islington), Longborough and The Riverhouse Barn, (Walton-on-Thames). |
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The Gilbert and Sullivan Society Convention |
Fri, 03 Apr 2009Time: 2:00 pm
Venue: Grim's Dyke Hotel, Harrow Weald |
From Friday 3rd April to Sunday 5th April 2009 the Gilbert and Sullivan Society convention. More details available in the "Gilbert and Sullivan News" or from Peter Mountsteven (see below)
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Contact: Peter Mountsteven
Telephone 01279 302665
Email:
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Linda Watts in Concert |
Thu, 21 May 2009Time: 07:15 am
Venue: The Club for Acts and Actors, 20 Bedford Street, London. WC2E 9HP |
A mixed concert fron Linda, from Gilbert and SAullivan to Grand Opera.
Linda has toured extensively with the Magic of the Musicals, opera and operetta. Her singing, which encompasses classical and light music has been enjoyed by many in concerts, theatres, and cabaret performances including prestigious shows in the West End, all parts of the British Isles, and around the world on many occasions. A recent trip to the USA proved very successful with a most discerning American audience.
Linda has also had the pleasure of singing at the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Wigmore Hall, as well as appearing in several Royal Gala shows and concerts with the BBC Concert Orchestra. She has sung for Royal events with the Royal Military Bands of the Scot's Guards, the Blues and Royals and the Royal Marines. |
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May Saturday morning tour to 39 Harrington Gardens c/o Haskolls assembling at Gloucester Road, Underground station at 10.00 am.
Details including date and how to book in Spring 2008 edition of Gilbert & Sullivan News
All meetings are at The Club for Acts and Actors, 20 Bedford Street, London. WC2 (Near Covent Garden, Leicester Square and Charing Cross stations)
Further details, recent biographies from and programme suggestions to:
Peter Mountsteven, Hon. Programme Secretary
44 Fennells, Harlow, Essex CM19 4RL
Tel 01279- 446597, e-mail (to mid-March 2008)
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