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Tag Archives: Surrey Opera
Surrey Opera’s annual Spring Fair, Clyde Hall, Feb 17
Posted in Clyde Hall, Community associations, Music, Surrey Opera
Tagged Clyde Hall, Surrey Opera
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Surrey Opera to perform world premiere of Fry’s latest work
Stephen Fry, that giant of British comedy, television and film, has written his first opera and it is to have its world premiere performed by a Croydon-based musical company. Polymath and TV panel show host Fry announced that the work, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Clyde Hall, Music, Surrey Opera
Tagged Clyde Hall, Stephen Fry, Surrey Opera
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Yearning for opera fulfilled by this staging of Iernin
Given the free run of a boys’ school, albeit once most of the boys had gone home for the day, our regular arts reviewer, BELLA BARTOCK, did not hesitate to accept a ticket to the latest splendid production from Surrey … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Dance, Music, Surrey Opera
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, George Lloyd, HMS Trinidad, London, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Surrey Opera
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Fairfield’s future needs to engage with Croydon public
Tired. Poorly managed. Poorly used. Under-funded. Under-appreciated. The Fairfield Halls, half a century old, might symbolise the faded grandeur of Croydon itself. With mounting concern over the council’s arts policy, or absence of it after the axing of the Mela … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Cinema, Comedy, Community associations, Dance, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Fairfield Halls, London Mozart Players, Music, South Croydon Community Association, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Arts Council, Croydon, David Lean Cinema, Fairfield Hall, Hackney Empire, Michael Jackson, National Lottery, Surrey Opera
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Pick of posts of 2012: Allders, comics and sinking ships
Yesterday, we listed our 20 most-read posts of 2012. We also asked some of our readers and contributors for a more subjective selection and to choose their favourite articles from the past 12 months. Here’s some of their answers: If … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Allders, Andrew Pelling, Art, CODA, Comedy, Croydon Council, Housing, John Laing Integrated Services, Libraries, Mike Fisher, Phil Thomas, Planning, URV
Tagged Allders, Andrew Pelling, Croydon, Edinburgh Festival, London, Seat of local government, Surrey Opera, Town Hall
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Not much rhyme to Coleridge-Taylor’s lost opera
BELLA BARTOCK has returned to Inside Croydon Towers, tiara slightly askew, a couple of pages of tightly-typed copy in her be-gloved hand, after the latest high-brow premiere to be staged at the Fairfield Halls Over the years, I have always … Continue reading
