Pimlico Opera

Pimlico Opera is an opera company and registered charity founded in 1987 by Wasfi Kani.
The company aims to use participation in opera to advance personal developmentparticularly with younger people and to engender a sense of community.
The most recent production from Pimlico Opera was "Sweet Charity" staged in HMP Bronzefield in November 2018. Olivier award-nominated actress Laura Pitt-Pulford played the leading role of Charity Hope Valentine.
History.
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. 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. 
Pimlico Opera staged the European première of Shostakovich's musical comedy "Cheryomushki" at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith on 20 October 1994. A translation was commissioned David Pountney and composer Gerard McBurney to create a reduced orchestration. A documentary was made by the BBC "Another Bite of the Cherry".
In prison.
Pimlico Opera has been staging productions in prisons since 1991. In 1993, BBC Wales filmed the three month process involved in putting on a show inside a prison. This was made into a documentary called "Guys, Dolls and D-Wing" that was aired on BBC2.
Prison projects since 1991:
1991: HMP Wormwood Scrubs ""
1992: HMP Wandsworth "West Side Story"
1993: HMP Wandsworth "Guys & Dolls"
1995: HMP Wandsworth "West Side Story"
1996: Mountjoy Prison Dublin " West Side Story" 
1997: HMP Bullingdon, Oxfordshire "West Side Story"
1999: HMP Downview " Threepenny opera".
2001: HMP Winchester "Threepenny Opera"
2002: HMP Winchester "West Side Story"
2003: HMP Wormwood Scrubs "Guys & Dolls"
2004 HMP Ashwell, Leicestershire "Assassins"
2005: HMP Coldingley, Surrey "Assassins"
2006: HMP Bronzefield Middlesex "Chicago"
2007: HMP Wandsworth "Les Miserables"
2008: HMP Kingston "" (Project cancelled)
2009: HMP Wandsworth "West Side Story"
2010: HMP Wandsworth "Carmen - The Musical"
2011: HMP Send, Surrey "Sugar"
2012: HMP Erlestoke, Wiltshire "Les Miserables" 
2013: HMP Erlestoke, Wiltshire "West Side Story"
2014: HMP Bronzefield "Sister Act"
2015: HMP ISIS "Our House"
2017: HMP High Down "Les Miserables"
2018: HMP Bronzefield "Sweet Charity"
In primary schools.
Every week of the school year, Pimlico Opera gives 2,000 primary children a half hour singing class. Schools are selected in which there is little or no music provision, with KS2 results below the national average and a high percentage of free school meals.
The project takes place in Hampshire, Surrey, Durham, Newcastle, and Nottingham.