Presenting Top Cs & Tiaras™
Created for television in the 1980s, Top C's & Tiaras was one of the very first and best star vehicles to bring popular classical music to a large and mainstream audience. In 2025 the concept, format and brand are being relaunched for licensing and production in the age of multi-media.
The Top Cs Repertoire
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Titles
2,700
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Showlist
241
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Composers
83
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Brands
1
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The Top C's and Tiaras™ Brand
By Request
Private pages for potential partners interested in further discussion, by request. They do not aim to detail every aspect of Top Cs, however they do illustrate the potential of the brand and highlight aspects of this extraordinary opportunity.
Find out more about exploitation of the brand, sponsorship opportunities and iconic destinations, the heritage of Top Cs, the strength of concept and its legacy, and indeed the the name itself. Professional enquiries only, please ask for a link.
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Creator's Comments:
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Top C's and Tiaras was ground-breaking, very much ahead of its time. It was huge fun to drill-down into the operetta repertoire, not only for the researchers and the production team, but also for the musicians and artists.
We first developed this crossover concept and the modular format for another TV company but when Channel 4 first said they needed a popular music entertainment show for a peak viewing slot to get the ratings up, Top Cs was the obvious choice. It didn't fail to deliver. Being the most viewer-requested show on Channel 4 at that time, they then chose not to go to another series. Apparently, it wasn't edgy enough! Too mainstream for C4. In recording the main series we simultaneously recorded digital sound for marketing purposes, CDs, videos and the like. At that time the MU and PRS rights and residuals made secondary exploitation cost-prohibitive. By the time the unions released their 'death-grip' a few years later we had moved on to other projects. Top C's never reached its wider audience nor fulfilled its potential. The format is as fresh today. There has been nothing like it on tv, event cinema, or elsewhere, since! |
