The Redruth Amateur Operatic Society has been delighting audiences for many years and its productions have always been a firm fixture in the diary.
The Society has a long history and there is more about it to be added. Meanwhile, if you can any information, photographs or programmes that will help tell its story then your help will be appreciated.
Productions:
Additional Concert Programmes welcomed
1909: HMS Pinafore
1909: The Mikado
1910: The Magistrate
1911: The Princess and the Rose
1912: Trial by Jury
1913: Pirates of Penzance
1914: The Gondoliers
1920: Pirates of Penzance
1921: The Yeoman of the Guard
1922: Iolanthe
1923: The Mikado
1924: Ruddigore
1925: The Gondoliers
1926: Patience
1927: The Sorcerer
1928: The Emerald Isle
1929: Merrie England
1930: Rose of Persia
1931: Iolanthe
1932: Tom Jones
1933: The Princess of Kensington
1934: The Seadog’s Wooing
1935: The Yeoman of the Guard
1936: The Vagabond King
1939: The Rebel Maid
1946: The Vagabond King
1947: The Desert Song
1948: New Moon
1949: Balalaika
1950: The Maid of the Mountains
1951: Chu-Chin-Chow
1952: Bitter Sweet
1953: Rio Rita
1954: Magyar Melody
1955: Perchance to Dream
1956: Show Boat
1957: White Horse Inn
1958: Rose Marie
1959: The Dancing Years
1960: The King and I
1961: Merrie England
1962: King’s Rhapsody
1963: Ruddigore
1964: South Pacific
1965: Carousel
1966: The Desert Song
1967: Oklahoma
1968: The Student Prince
1969: My Fair Lady
1970: Kismet
1971: The Sound of Music
1972: The Merry Widow
1973: Fiddler on the Roof
1974: Annie Get Your Gun
1975: Oliver
1976: Show Boat
1977: Rose Marie
1978: West Side Story
Assumed 1979
Additional information about this concert can be found in the programme lodged with Kresen Kernow
Help in adding to this list will be appreciated.
Pantomimes
1948: Cinderella
1949: Dick Whittington
1950: Mother Goose
1951: Babes in the Wood
1952: Goody Two Shoes
1953: Sleeping Beauty
1954: Red Riding Hood
1955: Aladdin
1956: Cinderella
1957: Jack and the Beanstalk
1958: Sinbad the Sailor
1959: Dick Whittington
1960: Babes in the Wood
1961: Mother Goose
1962: Aladdin
1963: Puss in Boots
1964: Red Riding Hood
1965: Robinson Crusoe
1966: Cinderella
1967: Queen of Hearts
1968: Babes in the wood
1969: Tom the Piper’s Son
1970: Mother Goose
1971: Aladdin
1972: Dick Whittington
1973: Red Riding Hood
1974: Cinderella
1975: Babes in the Wood
1976: Jack in the Beanstalk
1977: Sinbad the Sailor
1978: Sleeping Beauty
Help in adding to this list will be appreciated.
Further information about the Redruth Amateur Operatic Society can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/redruthoperatic
This is a part of the Cornish National Music Archive (CNMA) project to Collect, Preserve and Share our Cornish Heritage and Culture.