(photo by Pete Ashton) I saw Birmingham Opera Company’s staging of Stravinsky’s The Wedding on Friday night – the dress rehearsal, to be precise. Claire Ferrell has commented on our previous post to say: I attended this last night, the performance was absolutely incredible. I am a huge fan of Birmingham Opera Company, they blow me away … [Read more…]
This weekend Birmingham Opera Company will be presenting Stravinsky’s The Wedding at A E Harris. The experimental performance will last half an hour, as audiences are drawn around the space, with no formal seating and performance area. The Wedding is a screaming, shrieking, flat out masterpiece with its rhythmic drive and unique sound world – … [Read more…]
On 20 November, The Hare & Hounds and Birmingham Jazz will be welcoming the Grammy nominated Christen Scott Quintet to Birmingham. Considered somewhat jazz pedigree, as the nephew of saxophonist Donald Harrison, Scott has become one of the great innovators of his generation as part of an achingly cool new wave of contemporary jazz artists. … [Read more…]
After a packed month and a half, along with the summer holidays, Birmingham Hippodrome’s Six Summer Saturdays has come to an end. The series provided perfect weekend entertainment for the kids – both young and old, with a variety of performances across the city centre. We posted up a video the other week, but the … [Read more…]
Six Summer Saturdays Week 2 from Birmingham Hippodrome on Vimeo. If you’ve been in and around Birmingham for the past four weekends you’ll have seen all sorts of shenanigans going on as part of Six Summer Saturdays. Shows and highlights from the best outdoor theatre have been organised by the Hippodrome, which are free to … [Read more…]
After their 40th anniversary last year, Ex Cathedra are continuing their success into 2010/11. Their dairy for the next few months looks pretty packed, have a browse through this season’s brochure to see if anything suits you. Here’s a couple of things they’ve got going coming up; 3 September: Tallis’s Spem in alium and Alec … [Read more…]
Intrepid reporter that I am, I went along to the Fierce Start Party last week to see what Laura and Harun, the new artistic directors, are planning for the next 12 months. If you’re not familiar with Fierce they’ve been responsible for some of the most weird, wonderful and worrying live art presented in Birmingham … [Read more…]
Thursdays have been pretty stuffed with lots of good activities recently but there’s a biggie going on tonight over at AE Harris. Fierce are hosting the Fierce Start Party with all sorts of things going on. 3-9pm – food, installation, performance 7pm – words 9pm-late – post-party with music What, you may be asking, is … [Read more…]