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<td colspan="2"><font size="1"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">W11 Children's
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<p><font size="1"><b><a href="#per">Flying High - Performance Info</a><br>
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<td width="100%" valign="top"> <font size="1"><b>1 December 2020</b><br>
St James's Norlands Church (staged concert performance only) <br>
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<b>8 and 9 December 2020</b> <br>
Linbury Studio Theatre.<br>
</font><font size="1">Tickets available from the Box Office, Royal
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<p><font size="1"> The disused factory that ultimately makes way for
the glittering awards ceremony are the contemporary settings of
W11 Opera's commission for 2001, Flying High. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">At the factory, the latest pop video is being made.
Riggers, technicians, film crew and production teams assemble together
with children for the bit parts. They will create the musical and
visual package that will bring global fame to its star, Ava. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">The ambitions of the aspiring rock band amongst
the riggers releases the arguments about fame and fortune against
the dull but secure regularity of the pay packet from an ordinary
job. Cynicism with experience from the other professionals has little
effect on the band whose inexperience has cost them nothing. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Meanwhile, Ava, increasingly critical of the material
she has to sing abandons the recording altogether in frustration.
Amidst the uproar and threats of bankruptcy and broken contracts,
it is suddenly announced that the songwriter, a legend in his own
lifetime, has arrived to watch the recording. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">A dismayed silence accompanies the entry of an old
man in a wheelchair. Ava leaves with her ex-boyfriend and former
singing partner who has been urging her to make a new start with
him. Her departure leaves an opening for the riggers. The awards
ceremony will celebrate the few who will succeed and allow the rest
to continue to dream. </font></p>
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<p><font size="1">Unique amongst opera companies the W11 Opera Trust
casts only school-age singers for each new opera it commissions
every year. Entirely professionally produced, the performances are
a stunningly unusual musical event. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">No other opera company regularly commissions a world
premiere specifically for a cast of this age-group. Nor has any
otherbuilt a repertoire of such diverse music and themes.</font></p>
<p><font size="1">Nearly three thousand teenagers and children have
appeared in our productions to date and have helped to build the
careers of Evelyn Glennie, Wayne Marshall and Saskia Wickham amongst
others. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">In March 2001 one of the regular cast members, James
Gillies from Colet Court School was selected for the main role in
the RSC's musical of The Secret Garden. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">The cast has also been asked to provide the children's
chorus for Carmen, the opening production of the 2001 Holland Park
Opera Season. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">In addition, W11 Opera also includes a small number
of disadvantaged children in its cast and will waive the annual
subscription when it is thought necessary. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">In 2000 it initiated a community development programme
by inviting other groups of adults or children to a performance,
who for whatever reason, have been excluded from participation in
and or enjoyment of the performing arts. </font></p>
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<p><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><b><font color="#000000">The birth
of W11 Opera W11<br>
</font></b></font><font size="1">W11 Opera was founded by four string
teachers in W11 with the conductor Nicholas Kraemer when they put
on Britten's Noye's Fludde in 1971. The cast included 100 local
children. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">The exhilaration of that first production led to
the development of the opera together with the vision and drive
of both Timothy and Nicholas Kraemer. Regular commissioning began
in 1972 when it became apparent that there was scarcely any repertoire
for the 9-18 age group. </font></p>
<p><font size="1"><b>W11 Opera - current and future </b><br>
Today the opera still pursues the policy of hiring a professional
music and production team whilst retaining the original ethos of
relying on skills and time given by parents. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">A core team of administrators, all volunteers, plan
productions and commission three years in advance. The scale of
the opera together with a three month rehearsal period ensure a
standard of performance which no one school can match within a normal
timetable nor with resources. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">The opera, a registered charity, costs �35,000 to
put on and it not eligible either for Arts Council funding or for
Lottery funding. Yet it has commissioned more operas since 1971
than any major opera company in the UK! </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Two years ago, the high standard of the opera was
finally rewarded by a booking at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal
Opera House, for the 2001 commission by Graham Preskett and John
Kane, Flying High. </font></p>
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