It Ain't Over Till The Fat Lady Sings-At Holland Park Opera

Tot Brill Singing

Those privileged to know the Dame understand she and Pooter have one thing in common.

In their desperation to appear soigne and cultivated they pretend to be opera aficionados'.
However, this is where the Dame and Pooter  diverge.....

Over the years Pooter has been 'playing the patron' spending millions of our money at HPO to indulge his puerile pretensions. The singing now has to stop. Pooter's back benchers, heeding the Dame, have insisted Pooter cease this huge waste of money when front line services are being vaporised. Or, so it seems, from the Cabinet paper below.

Fire eating and street theatre organiser, Tot Brill, has been tasked with delivering the bad news to David Colver, HPO supremo. Very soon he and buddies are going to have to stand on their own financial feet and learn to pay their own way. About time too!

And no, David, don't ask Pooter if he will invest some council pension fund money:the answer will have to be a firm NO!

A decision in principle as to whether to separate Opera Holland Park from the Council, and launch it as an independent company. Contact Officer: Tot Brill PART A decision with PART B Appendix
Decision maker:	Full Cabinet
Cabinet Member:	The Full Cabinet
Contact tel no:	020 73613950
Contact email:	Cabinet.coordinator@rbkc.gov.uk
Main consultees:	Decision taken in consultation with the Friends of Opera Holland Park
Date to be implemented:	Not before 22/03/2012
Current status:	Scheduled
Report available:	No