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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 .

 

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Game Over hits the front page of the Weekend Supplement, Saturday Telegraph (6-12- 2003); the full text can be read here

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Letter from Sir Georg Solti to the cast and company of Rainbow Planet (1983)

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Letter from Sir Georg Solti to the cast and company of Jonah (1984)

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News article in The Hill about W11 Opera and Jonah (1984)

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Patron Lady Valerie Solti writes to the company on its 30th anniversary (2001)

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Castmember Pippa Kapp is featured in Country Life (1998)

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Alanna Harris and Antonia Smith gracing Country Life (1997)

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ANTiphony beats the English National Opera to top placing in the Evening Standard’s music events (2005)

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All in the Mind castmembers featured in the Kensington & Chelsea News (2004)

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Joanna Lumley congratulates W11 girls after performance of L’Arlesiana -- Opera Holland Park (2003)

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Poster, Birthday (1982)

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Sound Waves, (Winter 1986)

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Ulysses cast in the Kensington & Chelsea News (1987)

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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, Musical 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