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Birmingham Opera Company

March 2023

  • Birmingham Opera Company’s production of Brecht and Eisler’s The Decision

    The week in classical: The Decision; The Dream of Gerontius; Soloists of the CBSO – review

  • As natural as formulaic assertions allow … The Decision.

    The Decision review – didactic, two-dimensional and dramatically obvious

July 2021

  • Graham Vick, opera director, by the Canal, central Birmingham. For Portrait of the Artist

    Sir Graham Vick obituary

    Innovative opera director determined to put on groundbreaking productions in unusual settings
  • One hump or two? Stephen Menotti duets with the camel in Stickhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht

    Maestro, cue the camel: Graham Vick’s greatest opera productions

    The opera director, who has died aged 67, had a vision of making the art form accessible to all. From Falstaff in a leisure centre to Stockhausen with real helicopters, here are his most ambitious, innovative stagings
  • ‘Brave, original and generous’ … Graham Vick in Birmingham.

    Renowned opera director Graham Vick dies from Covid complications aged 67

    Tributes paid to director who sought fresh classical audiences with pioneering productions and outreach programmes

May 2019

  • Erica Jeal

    Why is it such a struggle for new voices to be heard in the old world of English opera?

    Erica Jeal
    Many think of it as people singing loudly over a huge orchestra, but opera can be so much more, says Guardian music critic Erica Jeal

March 2019

  • Chrystal E Williams as Katerina with Joshua Stewart as Zinovy in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Picture by Adam Fradgley Pictured: Production / Performance images from "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" presented by Birmingham Opera Company FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT: Roulla Xenides at roulla.xenides@gmail.com - 07976 243 528 or 0121 471 2217

    The week in classical: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk; Kátya Kabanová; Haitink at 90 – review

  • BIRMINGHAM OPERA COMPANY “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk”<br>BIRMINGHAM OPERA COMPANY Picture by Adam Fradgley Pictured: Production / Performance images from “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” presented by Birmingham Opera Company FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT: Roulla Xenides at roulla.xenides@gmail.com - 07976 243 528 or 0121 471 2217

    Birmingham Opera Company: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk review – a blast of pure energy

March 2018

  • BIRMINGHAM OPERA COMPANY "WAKE"<br>BIRMINGHAM OPERA COMPANY Birmingham Opera Company presents "WAKE" Exclusive Pictures by Adam Fradgley Pictured are : Performance images Music: Giorgio Battistelli Words: Sarah Woods FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT: Richard Willacy on +447739952328 or rw@birminghamopera.org.uk

    Wake review – Birmingham Opera Company breathe life into Lazarus tale

    With local staff, chorus and extras, BOC’s latest project offsets an uneven story with its eclectic score and unique atmosphere

June 2017

  • Jonas Kaufmann in the Royal Opera House production of Verdi’s Otello, June 2017.

    Otello: opera, identity politics and blacking-up

    Opera companies now eschew the once traditional black makeup for the lead in Verdi’s masterpiece, but it remains a controversial issue that highlights the need to nurture more diverse talent

May 2016

  • Birmingham Opera Company rehearse for their upcoming performance of Idomeneo, directed by Graham Vick, in a former rubber factory in Ladywood, Birmingham. Commissioned for Arts

    'You do not need to be educated to be touched, to be moved and excited by opera'

    Graham Vick
  • Birmingham Opera Company’s 2015 production of Tippett’s The Ice Break, set in an inner-city warehouse, which ‘touched the lives of over 10,000 participants’.

    Opera companies urged to break out of 'ghetto' to find new audiences

July 2015

  • Thomas Rutling

    Music blog
    From slavery to singing star: celebrating Thomas Rutling

    Rutling was an extraordinary man, born a slave in Tennessee, he toured the world as a singer, and then opted to settle in Harrogate. He was a pioneer campaigner against racism: playing him in a new show made me wonder – has anything changed?

April 2014

  • khovanskygate

    Khovanskygate: A National Enquiry; St John Passion/Britten Sinfonia – review

  • A scene from Khovanskygate

    Khovanskygate review – Birmingham Opera Company go big

August 2012

  • Mittwoch aus Licht - Birmingham Opera Company

    Mittwoch aus Licht – review

    The staging is wonderfully fluent – and Stockhausen's music stops it becoming just a parade of weird images and pretentious ideas

March 2012

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen

    Stockhausen opera to be staged in full for first time – helicopters and all

    Birmingham Opera Company performance of Mittwoch aus Licht for London 2012 festival will have flying soloists and two choirs

December 2010

  • Charlotte Higgins on culture
    Birmingham arts budget takes 17% cut

    It's not the slash-and-burn approach feared, but the reduction will hit organisations across the city

May 2010

  • Ronald Samm, Stephanie Corley and Keel Watson in Verdi's Othello by Birmingham Opera Company

    Tom Service on classical music
    Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap

    Robert Thicknesse's criticism of opera confuses the luxurious fripperies that surround the spectacle with the thrilling, life-changing art at its heart

August 2008

  • Opera preview: King Idomeneo, Birmingham

    The Sherborne Building, Tue 12 to Aug 23

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