MVWI - May Meeting - Music & Opera with lestyn Edwards (Earlier start of 19.30)
Mon, May 22
|St. Marks & St. Andrews School
This month for our regular monthly Iestyn Edwards will be returning with Music & Opera
Time & Location
May 22, 2023, 7:30 PM GMT+1
St. Marks & St. Andrews School, Maple Road, Surbiton KT6 4AL
Guests
About the Event
Please RSVP to this event PLEASE NOTE THE EARLIER START OF 19.30
By popular demand, Iestyn Edwards. will be returning to entertain us further with more stories and music & opera.
Iestyn Edwards is an Olivier Award winning, Guildhall trained opera singer, international headliner, after dinner speaker and author of My Tutu Went AWOL.
With opera and dance, he tells how being overheard singing in a converted Suffolk police lockup led to an after dinner recital for Her Majesty on H.M.S. Victory – at the invitation of Admiral Lord West – and then to a misguided tour dancing Sugar Plum around the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan.
MoD reports described it as an honourable exchange when a fuming Royal Marines Commando hoicked Iestyn offstage by his tutu under-wiring to stuff him in a tank’s hull.
Just as the insurgents started shelling…