Pimlico Opera

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Pimlico Opera aims to use music and drama to advance personal development, particularly with younger people. Artistic excellence is an essential part of achieving this aim.

Back in 1987, the company was started by Wasfi Kani OBE and was probably the first to specialise in performing in unusual places - hospitals, wonderful country houses, banks, prisons. In 1991 the company was awarded Arts Council project funding and core funding.

Landmark productions include the first British performance of Shostakovich's musical comedy Cheryomushki, a satire on life in a 1950's Moscow housing estate which was the subject of a BBC documentary and nominated for an Evening Standard award.

There was a second BBC documentary about the work in prison which won a nomination for a BAFTA award.

Between 1992 and 2009 the Arts Council subsidised an annual tour to 20 small scale theatres from Berwick-on-Tweed to Cornwall.

Pimlico Opera is the sister company of Grange Park Opera which was founded in 1998: http://www.grangeparkopera.co.uk/


Connected mandy members:

Rae Piper
Choreographer
2014, Sister Act, Choreographer (with Paul Chantry)
HMP Bronzefield
2013, West Side Story, Ensemble
2013, West Side Story, Anybody's
Liz Marshall
Prop Maker
2013, Pimlico Opera, ASM/Props
Erlestoke Prison
Bernard Davies
Company Manager
2013, Les Miserables & West Side Story, Production Manager
Prison Projects
Charlotte March
Producer
2012, Les Miserables, Production Assistant
HMP Erlestoke
Ian Taylor
Technical Manager / Director
2012, Les Miserables, Stage Manager
HMP ERLESTOKE Prison
Sammi Woollard
Deputy Stage Manager
2012, Les Miserables, Assistant Stage Manager
HMP Erlestoke
Nerea Villares
Costume Designer
2012, Les Miserables, Costume assistant and wardrobe supervisor
HMP Erlestoke
Emma Clarke
Costume Assistant
2011, Sugar:The Musical, Wardrobe Assistant
HM Send Prison
Ian Taylor
Technical Manager / Director
2011, Sugar, Stage Manager
HMP Send
Graham Burgess
Sound Operator
2011, Sugar, Sound Operator
HM Prison Send
Emma Geddes
Automation Operator
2009, West Side Story, Deputy LX/Programmer
HMP Wandsworth
2007, Les Miserables, Ensemble
Wandsworth Prison
crispin anderson
Sound Technician
2007, Les Miserables, sound engineer
HMP Wandsworth
2006, Chicago, Amos Hart
Ian Taylor
Technical Manager / Director
2006, Chicago, Assistant Stage Manager
Bronzefield Prison
Steve Cressy
Company Stage Manager
2002, La Traviata, Company Stage Manager
Steve Cressy
Company Stage Manager
2001, Cosi Fan Tutte, Company Stage Manager
UK Tour
1999, Cheryomushki, Vava

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Alternative Company Names

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