Flooding Pimlico with Music: Pimlico Music Foundation presents Britten's Noye's Fludde with 200 local school children

The Pimlico Musical Foundation (PMF) is presenting a performance of Britten's Noyes Fludde at St Gabriel's Church, Pimlico on 5 July 2023.  The project features 200 school children from five local schools, and PMF is using the event not just to teach them some wonderful music, but also to help them think about climate change. PMF will be running workshops in the schools, in which the children will write their own lyrics for some of the opera’s traditional hymns, reflecting the local area as well as environmental issues. They will also decorate costumes for the performance and help build the set.

The performance will involve a community chorus of children from all five partner schools, members of the PMF’s Foundation Scholars programme, a team of world-class opera singers in principal roles including Gareth Brynmor John as Noye and Felicity Buckland as Mrs Noye, and a community orchestra supported by young professionals from the Southbank Sinfonia. It will be part of SouthWestFest 2023, the annual cultural community festival for south Westminster.

PMF Artistic Director James Day says "The Pimlico Musical Foundation exists to provide high-quality, free musical education to the children of Pimlico. Britten’s Noye’s Fludde is a masterwork and gives us a framework to teach key musical concepts while exploring an issue important to all members of our community".

Full details from the PMF website.