I went to the full dress rehearsal of Birmingham Opera Company’s King Idomeneo on Sunday night and loved it. What’s not to like about an abandoned factory stuffed with shipping containers, opera singers, dirt and orange trees? Anyway, I have two tickets for tonight’s proper opening show to give away to the first person who … [Read more…]
Plenty more information has come out since my last post about Birmingham Opera Company‘s forthcoming production of Mozart’s King Idomeneo. Firstly, the first performance will be on 12 August but there’s a free dress rehearsal taking place on Sunday 10 August at 7pm. If you’d like to go down to that then email boxoffice@birminghamopera.org.uk to … [Read more…]
The Birmingham Post Power 50 (tremble at their might!) has just been announced. With last year’s list having an impressive showing from the arts world, interest at CiB could almost have been described as ‘mild’. Ok, so it’s easy to be cynical about these things (and it’s open season on the Birmingham Post site – … [Read more…]
The Birmingham Opera Company, which was faced with cuts to its funding not so long ago, will return to the stage next month with a production of Mozart’s Idomeneo. As it says on the website: We don’t have an opera house and we don’t work in conventional theatres. We conjure our theatres out of spaces … [Read more…]