Birmingham Opera Company
The Birmingham Opera Company is a professional opera company based in Birmingham , England , which specializes in innovative and avant-garde productions of the opera repertoire and often plays in unusual locations.
Graham Vick is the chief director .
City of Birmingham Touring Opera productions
- 1987: Falstaff ( Giuseppe Verdi )
- 1988: The Magic Flute ( Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart )
- 1989: Peace ( Carl Davis )
- 1989: Ghanashyam (A Broken Branch) ( Ravi Shankar )
- 1989–91: The Ring Saga ( Richard Wagner )
- 1990: Beauty & the Beast ( Stephen Oliver )
- 1991: La Bohème ( Giacomo Puccini )
- 1992: Zaide (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- 1993: Les Boréades ( Jean-Philippe Rameau )
- 1994: Faust ( Charles Gounod )
- 1994: Silas Marner ( Howard Goodall )
- 1995: Chaka ( Akin Euba )
- 1995: Falstaff (Giuseppe Verdi)
- 1997: Macbeth (Giuseppe Verdi)
- 1997: The Church Parables ( Benjamin Britten )
- 1998: The Adventures of Vixen Sharp-Ears ( Leoš Janáček )
- 1999: The Two Widows ( Bedřich Smetana )
- 2000: Pelléas and Mélisande ( Claude Debussy )
- 2000: Tobias and the Angel ( Jonathan Dove )
| date | production | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Wozzeck ( Alban Berg ) | |
| 2002 | Fidelio ( Ludwig van Beethoven ) | |
| 2003 | Candide ( Leonard Bernstein ) | |
| 2003 | Rites of Spring ( Claudio Monteverdi ) | |
| 2003 | Women Beware (Claudio Monteverdi) | |
| 2003 | Mortal Combat (Claudio Monteverdi) | |
| 2004 | Curlew River (Benjamin Britten) | |
| 2005 | Ulysses Comes Home (Claudio Monteverdi) | |
| 2006 | Ariadne Sells Out ( Richard Strauss ) | Prologue from Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos . |
| 2006 | He Had It Coming (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) | After Mozart's Don Giovanni . |
| 2007 | La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi) | |
| 2008 | Idomeneo (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) | |
| 2009 | Otello (Giuseppe Verdi) | First British production with a colored tenor in the title role. |
| 2010 | A Man of Feeling (Stephen Oliver) | |
| 2010 | Les Noces ( Igor Stravinsky ) | |
| 2012 | Life is a Dream ( Jonathan Dove ) | Premiere. Commissioned by the Birmingham Opera Company. |
| 2012 | Wednesday out of light ( Karlheinz Stockhausen ) | Premiere. Commissioned by the London 2012 Festival. |
| 2013 | Songs and Dances of Death ( Modest Mussorgsky ) | Cooperation with BBC Birmingham, BBC Academy |
| 2014 | Khovanskygate: A National Inquiry (Modest Mussorgsky) |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/mar/18/classicalmusicandopera
- ^ Fiona Maddocks: Guardian Review of Othello . In: The Guardian , December 13, 2009. Retrieved September 27, 2012.