Masters of Wit

Composer and pianist Louis Mander, fresh from the premiere of his opera The Waves (inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel) at the Oslo Opera Festival, is joining forces with narrator Zeb Soanes and tenor Will Diggle for an evening celebrating music and wit in the parlour. 

Masters of Wit at St Peter's Church, Belsize Park on 11 October 2024 will feature songs by Arthur Sullivan, Cole Porter and Noel Coward, along with other gems, plus wit and wisdom from Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde and a host of others including aphorisms, diary entries and anecdotes.

Zeb Soanes is perhaps best known for reading The Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio, but he regularly presents on Classic FM and has created a series of graphic stories with James Mayhew about Gaspard the Fox, inspired by a London urban fox.

Will Diggle played Neville in the premiere of Louis Mander's The Waves, and in 2023 Florence caught him in the premiere of Edward Lambert's The Masque of Vengeance [see Florence's review]. In 2022, Louis Mander's musical Peter Pan, with book and lyrics by Pam Ayres, premiered at the Stroud Arts Festival with a narration by Zeb Soanes.

Full details from Zeb Soane's website.