[1][2] The company aims to use participation in opera to advance personal development – particularly with younger people and to engender a sense of community.
Olivier award-nominated actress Laura Pitt-Pulford[6] played the leading role of Charity Hope Valentine.
[7] Though its focus today is solely in prisons and primary schools, Pimlico Opera was known for 19 years (1990-2008) as an Arts Council-funded small-scale touring company.
[citation needed] In those years, repertoire included the Da Ponte trilogy, Cenerentola, Falstaff, Pagliacci, Turn of the Screw, Rigoletto, Gianni Schicchi and the company travelled from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Padstow in Cornwall.
[citation needed] Pimlico Opera staged the European première of Shostakovich's musical comedy Cheryomushki at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith on 20 October 1994.