Gala concert to remember well-known former Headmistress in Peterborough
A gala concert is to take place in memory of a former Headmistress of a Peterborough school.
Mrs Angela Storey passed away at peacefully in July aged 86, following a stroke.
Mrs Storey was the Headmistress of Westwood House School (later Peterborough High School and now The Peterborough School) from between 1977 and 1999.
Friend and colleague Tim Hurst-Brown paid tribute to her by stating: “Angela was an extremely cultured lady. She was always supremely elegant and very dignified, though she could let her hair down when in congenial company.
Friend and colleague Tim Hurst-Brown paid tribute to her by stating: “Angela was an extremely cultured lady. She was always supremely elegant and very dignified, though she could let her hair down when in congenial company."
The concert will be held at the Ballroom at the Stamford Arts Centre at 7:30pm on Saturday June 20.
‘THE WORLD OF GILBERT AND SULLIVAN’ will feature Alexandra Ferrari, Emma Stratton, Charles Mills, Stephen Godward and Tim Hurst-Brown, with Peter Hewitt at the piano.
They will sing, act and dance their way through many of the Savoy Operas including ‘The Pirates of Penzance’, ‘The Mikado’, ‘The Yeomen of the Guard’, ‘HMS Pinafore’, ‘Utopia, Ltd’, ‘The Gondoliers’, ‘The Grand Duke’ and ‘Ruddigore’.
Tickets are £16, which can be obtained from the Arts Centre box office on 01780 763203.
The evening consists of two hours of Savoy favourites, presented in period costume and performed in traditional style.