Topic: Birmingham Opera Company

Opera preview: King Idomeneo, Birmingham

No one in Britain stages opera like Birmingham Opera Company. Created by director Graham Vick, it's now in its eighth year, after metamorphosing from City Of Birmingham Touring Opera, which Vick had founded in 1987. Everything that BOC has staged has ...

Send in the diggers

But the warehouse, formerly the factory floor of the Sherborne rubber company, will shortly be transformed into the setting for Graham Vick's new walkabout production of Mozart's Idomeneo - just as soon as 2,500 tonnes of earth have been delivered ...

Inspiration in a factory

King Idomeno Birmingham Osud Royal Albert Hall Last year Birmingham Opera Company imported La traviata from Verona, and performed it to huge and enthusiastic audiences. Gratifyingly, the outcry was such that the BOC was 'reprieved', and, to demonstrate how up and running ...