This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Curtains up as Banbury Operatic Society perform The Mikado
20/04/2022
The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta is the second show in the society’s anniversary year
Banbury Operatic Society are back on stage this evening with the second show in their 60th anniversary year. They are staging Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado at the Wykham Theatre.
The society was formed in 1961 after two teachers at the then Easington School staged two Gilbert and Sullivan productions featuring school pupils and local singers. The cast included members of both Banbury Choral Society and Banbury Cross Players. For a time the group was known as the Banbury Amateur Operatic Society, but the word Amateur was later dropped.
The society also has a junior section – the Youth of Banbury Operatic Society, known as the YOBOS.
This week’s performance is the second since the Banbury Operatic Society was forced off stage for a couple of years by the pandemic. The first show in their 60th anniversary year was ‘A Night at the Oscars’, which completely sold out.
The Mikado begins tonight at 7.30pm and continues until Saturday evening, with a matinee performance on Saturday. Tickets are still available.
Published: by Banbury FM Newsteam