THIRTY YEARS OF BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA

colour, and how to lift costumes with accessories. Not surprisingly her chief vexation is when singers’ measurements prove incorrect: last year a carefully manufactured coat was completely wasted when it transpired that the singer was several sizes smaller, whilst meanwhile she was also having to cope with the growing ‘baby-bump’ of a soprano across the two months of our performances. We store several hundred costumes upstairs in the Village Hall, and from time to time, we have a necessary cull to make room for new ones. Pauline is always on the lookout for useful additions to the collection, some of which she acquires through her volunteer work at the Bampton Community Shop. Pauline and

Anne are currently engaged in cataloguing our collection, whilst keeping an eye on the perennial problem of rapacious moths –perhaps we should install that Dalek to exterminate them. Except Daleks don’t climb stairs!