Travel back in time with us and discover selected pictures and stories from our production archive. It's a work in progress - join us on the journey.
Six lives. Three Stages. One City. Read more
"woman.life.song" by British composer Judith Weir and with text by Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Clarissa Pinkola Estes was premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2000. In 2025, we gave the piece its own special Birmingham treatment. Read more
Summer 2024 - Tippett's New Year- "A major operatic re-discovery" Richard Bratby, The Spectator Read more
We hosted the European Opera Directing Prize with winning director Lorenzo Ponte and team premiering a production of Smetana's Two Widows developed in Birmingham in Smetana's home town in Czechia. Read more
Catch up on excerpts from our thrilling 2023 production The Decision here and on OperaVision Read more
Wagner's RhineGold with the CBSO. Probably the largest Opera event in Summer 2021 with a full socially distanced orchestra of 87, socially distanced rehearsals and socially distanced and undistanced audiences. Catch it on Sky Arts and Now TV. Read more
Winner of the 2019 RPS Award for Opera & Music Theatre, Shostakovich's epic opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was Birmingham Opera Company's 50th production. There were five sold-out performances at the Tower Ballroom in March 2019. Directed by Graham Vick. Conducted by Alpesh Chauhan. Design by Block9. Read more
Is Society dead? Do you believe THIS is life? Are you ALIVE? Italy’s greatest living composer, Giorgio Battistelli, award-winning writer/activist Sarah Woods, 200 Brummies, and a cast of international stars harness the power of music - and dare to raise the dead. WAKE and witness the miracle. Read more
A reimagining of Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas. Audiences for DnA didn't receive a ticket but had to find the top secret B4 location only with a postcode. Read more
Michael Tippett's daring, experimental opera The Ice Break is a challenge for performers and audiences alike. The breaking ice is our family relationships, our cities, our culture, our gods our selves. Read more
Who can save us from ourselves? For Birmingham Opera Company's first Russian opera, there was only one candidate - Mussorgsky's thrilling insight into the very nature of human motivation. Read more
"Whenever we hear sounds we are no longer the same, and this is even more the case when we hear organized sound - music. New means change the method - new methods change the experience - new experiences change man." - Karlheinz Stockhausen Read more