Diary
Iford Arts Opera Gala
Company season yet to announce
Banqueting Room, Guildhall, Bath, UK
Story of Christmas Appeal
Wednesday 16 December, 2020 at 7.30pm
ONLINE
The Story of Christmas goes online in 2020
Starring: Dame Judi Dench, Ian Hislop, Aled Jones, Dame Floella Benjamin, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Clare Balding, Jim Carter, Olivia Colman, Freddie Fox, Dawn French, Tim Henman, Sir Derek Jacobi, Miriam Margolyes, Sophie Raworth, John Sessions, Eleanor Tomlinson and Dame Penelope Wilton
Founded in 1978, The Story of Christmas is an annual Christmas charity event which is strongly supported by the property and construction industries. It takes place each December at St George’s Hanover Square in London’s Mayfair in the form of a service of nine lessons and carols. Readings are presented by a whole host of celebrated names from public life. Festive music each year is performed Band and Fanfare Trumpeters of the Irish, Welsh, Scots or Coldstream Guards and a leading British Cathedral Choir. Following the service there is a champagne reception and charity auction in the ballroom at The Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel. The event raises funds – donated chiefly by companies in the property and construction industries – to finance capital projects benefitting either the homeless or disadvantaged children.
Over the past few months we have been agonising about The Story of Christmas in view of the pandemic crisis. Staging an event with over 500 guests in a packed-out church and ballroom seems increasingly problematic for all the obvious reasons. At the same time we cannot abandon our charities at a time when they need us more than ever. The show must go on! Therefore we are excited to announce that The Story of Christmas 2020 will proceed as a star-studded, televised online event.
Many of our most popular associated celebrities will be performing, together with the Band & Fanfare Trumpeters of the Scots Guards and the Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral. We are very grateful that many of our longstanding sponsors and donors have already confirmed their usual wonderful support.
New Year in Vienna
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Hallé Orchestra
Join Stephen Bell, Sky Ingram and the Hallé as they take you on a Viennese whirl round ballrooms and opera houses in this traditional start to the New Year.
Rusalka
June - July 2022
Company season yet to announce
Ingram shows yet again why her star is rising fast
Mark Valencia, WhatsOnStage
Glare (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
Sky Ingram en un rol dificilisimo estuvo magnifica, tanto en la fuerza de los agudos como en los pianos y medis voz. (Sky Ingram was magnificent in such a fiendishly difficult role, both in the power of her high register as in her piano and mezza-voce singing.)
Fernando Herrero, EL NORTE DE CASTILLA
Rusalka (Valladollid, Spain)
