CANTERBURY OPERATIC SOCIETY Award-winning performers of musical theatre

Between 1907 and 2011, from Patience to Into the Woods, Canterbury Operatic Society performed 45 different musicals, plus a number of 'compilation shows' devised locally. Unsurprisingly, we have performed the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan more than any other shows - they do have a head start on most of the rest of our repertoire after all! Over the years, all of their survivng operas have been put on stage by the Society with the exception of The Grand Duke. The Mikado and The Gondoliers lead the pack with six outings each. In more recent years, although Gilbert and Sullivan are far from forgotten, we tend to perform more modern musicals. Oklahoma! and Fiddler on the Roof have so far proved the most popular of these shows.