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Wilton's Music HallNewest Review: ... once through the vestibule (of old bricks bereft of paint or plaster) you enter an auditorium rather like a nineteenth-century nonconformist chapel - gallery round three sides, supported on barley-twist pillars, and instead of communion table and pulpit just a stage with modern stage lighting installed. The seating is basic, the walls of stripped brickwork, the ornate plaster on the front of ... more |
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by cpipe - written on 10.04.03 (Very useful, 298 readings)
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Wilton's was the first purpose-built music hall, and survives today in something remarkably close to its original state, though currently in very faded splendour. Derelict for many years, it has lately become the home of Broomhill Opera, a company of absolutely top class singers in the early stages of their professional career, dedicated to bringing opera to a wider audience. The wider audience doesn't so far include our taxi driver, who had never heard of the place and needed the location map I had printed off from the website. Imagine the sort of London East End alleyway that's part newly rebuilt flats, part building site and part seedy ...
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