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Review: Life Is A Dream, Birmingham Opera Company, Argyle Works, Digbeth Mar 30 2012

Birmingham Opera Company has long cherished the ambition of commissioning and producing a new opera. The result – Jonathan Dove’s Life is a Dream – is inspirational. Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton have created a big, richly dramatic opera with a compelling plot, peopled by fascinatingly human characters. In short, it’s the real thing, performed with bravura by a company at the top of its game.Read

Helicopter heaven for Birmingham Opera Company during Cultural Olympics Mar 15 2012

Birmingham Opera Company will stage the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s spectacular Mittwoch (Wednesday) in an old chemical plant in Digbeth as part of this summer’s Olympics arts festival - with a string quartet performing from overhead helicopters.Read

Birmingham Opera Company hoping to team up with city business Nov 24 2011

Birmingham Opera Company is aiming to switch the city’s business community on to arias as it gears up to stage one of its most ambitious productions yet.Read

Birmingham Opera Company on national awards short-list May 20 2011

Birmingham Opera Company and its artistic director, Graham Vick, have been short-listed for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation UK award.Read

Industrial arias Nov 19 2010

Lorne Jackson finds a Stravinsky opera taking shape in a harsh Jewellery Quarter warehouse.Read

Philanthropists could be heroes after West Midlands arts funding is slashed Jul 16 2010

As the Government prepares to slash arts funding, Kat Keogh looks at how West Midlands groups will cope with the cuts and asks if help from philanthropists is the answer.Read

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