Willesden and Wembley Operatic Societies

LHC/1/LEI/4

1913 - c.1987

Brent Archives

Programmes from various productions including Gilbert and Sullivan ( Shakespeare in the case of the Wembley amateur society) and also those for commemorative, annual and reunion Dinner and Dance functions. These also comprise details of the menu.Plus some early newspaper cuttings on Willesden Operatic Society from a production of The Gondoliers, 1/11/1929 (Willesden Chronicle) and from the 21st Anniversary production of The Mikado in 1930.(Willesden Chronicle and The Daily Sketch, a national newspaper), a later version of The Mikado staged in 1936 (Willesden Chronicle) a production of The Pirates of Penzance from an unidentified date plus a small cutting about the Willesden Operatic Society' s25th Annual Dinner (Willesden Chronicle, 1936?) One production was a combined one between the Wembley Operatic and Dramatic Society and those representing the London Borough of Brent, (Camelot, May1987).

1 box

English

London Borough of Brent, Wembley Operatic and Dramatic Society, Willesden Amateur Operatic Society

Wembley, Borough of, Willesden, Borough of, London Borough of Brent, Opera