http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/ Birmingham ballet & opera, Birmingham Royal Ballet - Birmingham Post en-gb Birmingham Post http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/08/17/birmingham-opera-s-king-idomeneo-sells-out-65233-21551297/ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:28:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/08/17/birmingham-opera-s-king-idomeneo-sells-out-65233-21551297/ Birmingham Opera Company’s decision to stage its latest work in a former rubber factory has proved a smash hit. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/08/13/review-ignore-silliness-in-birmingham-opera-company-s-idomeneo-65233-21526069/ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:54:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/08/13/review-ignore-silliness-in-birmingham-opera-company-s-idomeneo-65233-21526069/ The secret with Birmingham Opera Company presentations is to concentrate upon the positives. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/08/12/a-sweet-note-finally-emerges-from-arts-council-grant-fiasco-65233-21516877/ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:25:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/08/12/a-sweet-note-finally-emerges-from-arts-council-grant-fiasco-65233-21516877/ As Birmingham Opera Company stages its latest production, the inquiry into the row over the Arts Council’s Christmas cuts shows how reorganisation created a structure that was unfit for purpose. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/07/29/an-operatic-designer-for-life-65233-21424500/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:43:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/07/29/an-operatic-designer-for-life-65233-21424500/ Jon Perks meets the designer with the task of making a Mozart opera feel at home in a disused factory http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/07/23/stretching-the-boundaries-of-opera-65233-21390240/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:36:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/07/23/stretching-the-boundaries-of-opera-65233-21390240/ Birmingham Opera Company is preparing to make an international splash alongside the canal in Ladywood. Terry Grimley meets artistic director Graham Vick. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/07/22/birmingham-opera-in-disused-rubber-factory-attracts-international-attention-65233-21387182/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:12:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/07/22/birmingham-opera-in-disused-rubber-factory-attracts-international-attention-65233-21387182/ Opera companies from Venice, Lisbon, Brussels, Verona, Madrid and Austria are expected to send representatives to see a production of Mozart’s Idomeneo at a disused rubber factory in Birmingham next month. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/07/17/das-rheingold-at-longborough-festival-opera-65233-21358843/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:50:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/07/17/das-rheingold-at-longborough-festival-opera-65233-21358843/ First seen last year, Longborough’s Rheingold is a miracle of resource, imagination, flair and sheer cussed guts. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/07/07/birmingham-opera-company-heads-for-rubber-factory-65233-21300251/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:08:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/07/07/birmingham-opera-company-heads-for-rubber-factory-65233-21300251/ Birmingham Opera Company will be staging a production of a Mozart favourite – in a former rubber factory. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/07/04/armonica-consort-opera-at-king-s-high-school-for-girls-warwick-65233-21264033/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:26:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/07/04/armonica-consort-opera-at-king-s-high-school-for-girls-warwick-65233-21264033/ In baroque times, theatrical evenings would begin with the meaty tragedy and finish with a frothy comedy as a late-night sorbet. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/07/02/cunning-little-vixen-at-longborough-festival-opera-65233-21215364/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/07/02/cunning-little-vixen-at-longborough-festival-opera-65233-21215364/ Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen is a work which seems particularly suited to Longborough, high in the Cotswolds amid dense forestation, where the woodland creatures we see in this most enchanting of operas surely scuttle about their nocturnal business just as they do onstage. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/06/30/desmond-kelly-gala-birmingham-royal-ballet-at-birmingham-hippodrome-65233-21202993/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/06/30/desmond-kelly-gala-birmingham-royal-ballet-at-birmingham-hippodrome-65233-21202993/ Desmond Kelly partnered Margot Fonteyn, worked with George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton and two years ago brought ballet into the living rooms of the masses with the remarkable Ballet Hoo! project for Birmingham Royal Ballet. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/06/23/hansel-and-gretel-welsh-national-opera-at-birmingham-hippodrome-65233-21136625/ Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/06/23/hansel-and-gretel-welsh-national-opera-at-birmingham-hippodrome-65233-21136625/ Hansel and Gretel is one of the most wonderful operas in the repertoire, but a truly searching presentation leaves you wondering whether Engelbert Humperdinck, one of Wagner's most fervent disciples, was in fact taking the mickey out of the Bayreuth master. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/06/19/review-aida-at-birmingham-hippodrome-65233-21105475/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/06/19/review-aida-at-birmingham-hippodrome-65233-21105475/ Director John Caird had already warned us not to expect any sphinxes or pyramids in his new Aida for Welsh National Opera. And he made his point even during the prelude - as the curtain rose on Radamès dragging languidly on a hookah surrounded by recumbent, colourfully-gowned slaves. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/06/13/review-la-traviata-at-longborough-festival-opera-65233-21069985/ Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/06/13/review-la-traviata-at-longborough-festival-opera-65233-21069985/ Anyone who calls Verdi's La Traviata "grand opera" is totally missing the point. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/06/11/michael-corder-s-stravinsky-challenge-65233-21057732/ Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/06/11/michael-corder-s-stravinsky-challenge-65233-21057732/ Choreographer Michael Corder talks to Terry Grimley about the challenge of staging Stravinsky's tribute to his idol Tchaikovsky. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/06/04/review-madama-butterfly-at-grand-theatre-wolverhampton-65233-21022188/ Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/06/04/review-madama-butterfly-at-grand-theatre-wolverhampton-65233-21022188/ Wolverhampton's opera- goers need to seize the moment when touring companies come to town. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/05/28/birmingham-royal-ballet-fears-over-new-immigration-system-65233-20982977/ Tue, 27 May 2008 23:01:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/05/28/birmingham-royal-ballet-fears-over-new-immigration-system-65233-20982977/ Plans to introduce a point-based migration system similar to Australia’s could threaten the recruitment of foreign dancers by Birmingham Royal Ballet, its directors warned. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/05/26/don-quixote-by-kirov-ballet-at-birmingham-hippodrome-65233-20975525/ Mon, 26 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/05/26/don-quixote-by-kirov-ballet-at-birmingham-hippodrome-65233-20975525/ The first International Danfie Festival Birmingham opened with a fialming spa-like experience from Cloud Gate Danfie Theatre of Taiwan - and ended with a sizzling fiery drama from the Kirov Ballet. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/05/22/the-kirov-ballet-at-birmingham-hippodrome-65233-20949130/ Wed, 21 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/05/22/the-kirov-ballet-at-birmingham-hippodrome-65233-20949130/ The aptly-named Jewels, a glittering array of three diverse ballet styles, three composers, three costume and set changes - and one choreographer, George Balanchine, was the Kirov Ballet's opening offer to Birmingham. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/05/15/birmingham-opera-company-wins-a-classical-oscar-65233-20918959/ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:45:00 GMT http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-ballet-opera/2008/05/15/birmingham-opera-company-wins-a-classical-oscar-65233-20918959/ Birmingham Opera Company, which was threatened with closure at the beginning of the year when the Arts Council withdrew its annual grant, won a prestigious award last night.