On this page you’ll find a variety of bits of W11 history that doesn’t obviously fit anywhere else on the site. If you have some images that you’d like to see posted here, please get in touch.There are even more clippings on the next page!
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Ulysses cast in the Kensington & Chelsea News (1987)
Twenty-fifth anniversary retrospective in the programme for the Ulysses revival (1996)
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Eloise and composer Karl Jenkins in Boosey & Hawkes Quarternotes (January 1998)
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Report on W11 Opera, The Hill, part 1 (1999)
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Report on W11 Opera, The Hill, part 2 (1999)
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Cecilia McDowall, composer of Deep Waters, with cast, in Classical Music (November 2000)
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Deep Waters plays the right tune in The Hill, (November 2000)
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Flying High featured in The Hill, (December 2001)
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Costume design sketches by Liz Dees for Deep Waters (2000)
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Costume design by Julia Pines for Eloise (1997)
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Newspaper report, Listen to the Earth (1992)
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A local newspaper features W11’s perfomance of Bel & the Dragon (1985)
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From the Notting Hill Housing Trust, Noyes Fludde (1971)
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W11’s first ever review: Noyes Fludde (1971)
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Saskia Wickham, programme, Deep Waters (2000)
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Sets and costumes by Mike Lees for ANTiphony (2005)
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Stage Directions for the Worker Ants by Emily Best, Director, Antiphony (1994)
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Set designs for All in the Mind by Will Bowen (2004)
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Some recollections of W11 Children’s Opera by Nicholas Kramer, Rainbow Planet (1983)
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Profile of Cecilia McDowall, composer of Deep Waters (2001), in The Singer.
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Some recollections of W11 Children’s Opera by Dominic McGonigal, music director (1995-1999)
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Relive old W11 Opera moments with this album of shots from the 1980s.
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W11 Opera listed as Top Classical Event by the Evening Standard, 7th December 2006
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‘Bengali take on English Stage’, a feature in the Hindustan Times, December 18th 2006.
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Feature in Kensington & Chelsea News, 22nd December 2006.
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An article by one of our cast members in First News, the award-winning weekly newspaper for kids, November 2007.
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One cast member’s experience of auditioning recounted in the Kensington Community Times, October 2007
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‘W11 Opera’ in Opera Now, November-December 2008
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‘Opera for all’, Young Performer, December 2008
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‘Chorus of Approval’: Robert Thicknesse on W11 Opera in The Tablet, November 2008
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‘Not Just For Grown Ups’: Rosie Johnson on W11 Opera in Opera Now, November 2011
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On the 40th birthday of W11 Opera,The Resident, August 2011