Index

October 2007

La Traviata Verdi

An international co-production with Arena di Verona with an audience of almost 10.000 at The National Indoor Arena, Birmingham.

Have a look below at some pictures from the show:

March 2007

He Had It Coming Mozart

Performed at the disused The Old Municipal Bank, Broad Street Birmingham.

2006 Ariadne Sells Out
The Prologue from Richard Strauss’s Ariadne on Naxos
Presented in The Que Club/Central Methodist Hall, Corporation Street Birmingham in November 2006.
April 2005Ulysses Comes Home Monteverdi
In a disused ice rink, Birmingham.
August 2004Women Beware Monteverdi
Performed on and beside the Fazeley Canal beneath a railway arch on the approach to Snow Hill Station, Birmingham.
July 2004Curlew River Benjamin Britten
With Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall and broadcast on BBC4 and Radio 3 and CBSO Centre, Birmingham
June 2004Rites of Spring Monteverdi
Al fresco performances outside St Philip’s Cathedral, beside the canal at Symphony Hall and in the Japanese Garden in Brindley Place.
January 2004Mortal Combat Monteverdi
After shopping hours in the new Bullring shopping centre. Performed outside Debenhams for an audience made up of people who had specifically come for the performance and many passers by who had been walking to the station to make their way home.
April/May 2003Candide Leonard Bernstein
The Chuckworks, an abandoned car parts factory, sadly now demolished in Digbeth, Birmingham.
March 2002

Fidelio Beethoven
In a big top in Aston Park beside Aston Villa FC.
The South Bank Show made a documentary about the making of Fidelio and BBC4 broadcast the last performance live.
*orchestration by Julian Grant available for hire.

Have a look below at some pictures from the show.

February-
March 2001
Votzeck Berg
In a semi-derelict warehouse on the edge of the Ladywood estate in Birmingham.
In the newly restored Aircraft Hangar No 2, Speke, Liverpool.
Sports Centre, Sheffield.
Freixo Electricity Sub Station, Porto, Portugal as part of the Capital of Culture celebrations.


CBTO
2000 Pelléas and Mélisande, Debussy
1999 The Two Widows, Smetana
1998 The Adventures of Vixen Sharp Ears, Janacek
1997 The Church Parables, Britten
1997 Macbeth, Verdi
1996 Falstaff, Verdi
1995 Les Boréades, Rameau
1994 Faust, Gounod
1994 Silas Marner, Howard Goodall
1993 Beauty & the Beast, Stephen Oliver
1993 Ghanashyam, Ravi Shankar
1992 La bohème, Puccini
1992 Zaide, Mozart
1991 Peace, Carl Davis
1990 The Ring Saga, Wagner
1988 The Magic Flute, Mozart
1987 Eis Thanaton, John Tavener
1987 La bohème, Puccini