Medway Opera
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Medway Opera
Medway Opera stages grand opera, operetta and concerts in North Kent.Since the company's founding in 1974, sixteen directors have devised and organised sixty-five productions of thirty different operas in two different theatres... (more details)
Medway Opera Officers
Chairman: Jenny MonkVice Chairman: Sue Chapple
Secretary: Gill Williams
Treasurer: Rob Semens
Company Music Director: Judy Shipstone
Advertising & Publicity: Paul Barton
Fundraising and Sponsorship: Victor Maynard
Membership Secretary: Sue Sills
Patrons' Secretary: Jane Hadler
Social Secretary: Alan Barry
Ticket Secretary: Linda Semens
Wardrobe: Gina Druker
Programme Secretary: Jack Ruler
Front of House Manager: Alice Ladger
WebGaffer: Robin Fosdal at 4tissimo
Life Presidents: Gladys Dennord, John M Mills, John Shipstone, Judy Shipstone
Medway Opera is a registered charity.
Registered Charity Number 1099752
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Interesting Links
- Andante
- The Aria Database
- BBC Radio 3
- City of Rochester
- City of Rochester Society
- Classic FM
- Curious Voices
- Gerontius
- The Gilbert & Sullivan Archive
- Gillingham Dramatic Society
- The Gramophone
- Gerard Hoffnung
- Joy Dey
- Kentish Players
- Maidstone Operatic
- Medway Council
- Medway Little Theatre
- NODA
- Naxos
- Oasthouse Theatre
- Online Opera Scores
- Opera Base
- OperadiO
- Opera Glass
- Opera Magazine
- Opera Resource
- Opera Stuff
- Pipedown
- Rochester Choral Society
- Sittingbourne Orpheus Choral Society
- Spotlites Theatre
- The Stage
Join Us
Medway Opera is always on the lookout for new members. Singers, actors, stagehands, scenery painters, make up artists, wardrobe, publicists, tea makers, administrators - there are a lot of jobs to be done both on and off stage, and a lot of pleasure to be had doing them.
If you think you might enjoy being a part of Medway Opera, just contact us. We will make you very welcome.
our next event
An Evening of Song
Including Joseph Horovitz's 









and excerpts from Chess, HMS Pinafore and Orpheus in the Underworld.
Fort Pitt Grammar School for Girls, Chatham
Saturday 17th May 2008 at 7:30pm
Admission £10 (including refreshments)
Tickets and information from Linda Brewer on 01634 403444
our last production
Carmen
Bizet's thrilling and vibrant work, full of excitement, passion, colour, dance and action - and some of the best-known music in opera.
Director & Designer: Colin Morris
Musical Director: Kenneth Roberts
Set Constuction: John Carden
Lighting Design & Direction: Robin Fosdal
The Central Theatre, Chatham. June 2007
