Mayor's first for opera tickets (From Thurrock Gazette)
Get involved: send your pictures, video, news and views by texting TGNEWS to 80360 or you can email us Click here for details »
Mayor's first for opera tickets
6:50am Friday 5th November 2010 in News
Mayor Anne Cheale receiving tickets from Thameside Theatre manager Mark Allinson and Royal Opera House education manager Gabrielle Forster-Still
THE mayor was first in the queue for tickets to a show being held to celebrate the opening of Thurrock’s first opera arena.
Cllr Anne Cheale, the borough’s mayor, bought the first tickets to the Purfleet Opera of Ludd and Isis.
It will see professional dancers, singers and musicians from the Royal Opera House perform alongside a Thurrock cast to mark the opening of the High House Production Park, in Purfleet.
The Ludd and Isis community opera features more than 1,000 people from the borough. The production will feature professional singers as well as a community chorus featuring people aged from five to 80.
Performances are being held on Tuesday, December 7, and from Thursday, December 9, until Saturday, December 11.
Tickets can be bought from the Thameside Theatre box office, in Orsett Road, Grays, by calling 0845 3005264, visiting www.thurrock. gov.uk/theatre/, or by calling the Royal Opera House box office on 020 73044000.
