THIS afternoon is the Last Wight of the Proms event, following a fantastic three days of entertainment at Wight Proms at Northwood House.

Some tickets are still available for this afternoon, which will feature soprano Joanna Forest, accompanied by the Wight Proms concert orchestra.

The weekend will climax in a rousing celebration of British music and flag-waving, including Pomp and Circumstance, Jerusalem and many more.

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The County Press has been at the event over the past few days.

Our theatre reviewers Nathan Stubbings and Abbie Revert enjoyed the opera night:

Northwood House was transported to Italy, France, and Germany on Thursday as the Wight Proms kicked off with it’s opera night. Hosted by the enigmatic Penny Smith (presenter of Scala Radio), the stage welcomed four professional opera singers supported by two of the Island’s own professional musicians, James Longford (keys) and Nina Plapp. Special credit should be given to Nina for performing so expertly just four days before her due date to give birth!

The four opera singers each brought their own energy to the performance. The soprano, Katherine Blumenthal, demonstrated astounding vocal range and agility and worked seamlessly with mezzo-soprano Maggie Cooper, whose characterisation engaged the audience from the very start. Meanwhile the men were not to be left behind, with tenor Jack Dolan hitting astoundingly high notes above the rich and mature tones of baritone Håkan Vramsmo.

However, just after the interval, the professionalism of the whole cast was tested as the keys packed in due to rain damage. The singers and cellist sang through a whole quartet acapella before a new keyboard was sent for. As the event organiser rushed home to bring his personal keyboard, presenter Penny Smith had the four singers cover the time by regailing the audience with hilarious anecdotes of times when things had gone wrong for them on stage. Then Penny brought out her pocket opera book and, by the torchlight of one helpful audience member, provided some context to the pieces we had been hearing that evening.

The keyboard was retrieved successfully and the night finished with another selection of beautiful opera arias. At the end of the night the audience must have been left to reflect on not just the professionalism of the cast in voice, but of their easy response to technical difficulties and graceful ability to command the stage even in times of trouble. The first night at the proms may not have been a smooth opening, but it was all the more enjoyable for the mishap.

On Friday evening was A Wight Laugh, the comedy night, and CP reporter Lori Little was there to enjoy it.

It kicked off with the incredible Rockafellas who played a set of popular covers and thoroughly warmed the audience up for the comedy to come.

It was just as well, because the first comedian Jenny Collier came straight into her set with plenty of sass and made us all sit up and take notice, from the off!

The first three comedians, Jenny Collier, Gareth Richards and Rachel Jackson, all had fresh and funny material aplenty thanks to the weirdness of the pandemic — which has given them all (and probably us all) a new perspective on life.

Undoubtedly the star of the evening was headline comic Angelos Epithemiou who had the entire audience in pain through excess laughter.

Recognisable from Shooting Stars and various other TV performances over his career, his act was finely tuned and a definite winner. At times just his presence on stage was enough, without words required.

His set was varied, from his attempts to speak to the dead, to his comedy dance (full of holes) to Mud's The Cat Crept In. It was sheer understated brilliance.

The Rockafellas then got the audience up onto their feet to dance the night away.

CP reporter Lucy Morgan attended last night (Saturday), when the West End came to Cowes, thanks to the amazing vocal talents of West End and Broadway star — formerly Elphaba in Wicked — Kerry Ellis and Oliver Tompsett, who made his name in We Will Rock You.

They performed a host of beloved anthems from the stage at Wight At The Musicals.

From the stirring Defying Gravity to the melancholy Bring Him Home (from Les Miserables) and from sing-a-long Queen anthems to a medley of hits from The Greatest Showman, the pair sang their hearts to a picnicking crowd, in the shadow of historic Northwood House.

As day turned to night, the twinkling fairy lights made the site magical.

Island youth group TheatreTrain had kicked off the night, with songs including a standout rap from Hamilton.

The Isle of Wight's JC and Angelina rounded off the evening — and started the dancing — with their accomplished brand of gypsy jazz.