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. This is how it all began.
Birmingham Opera Company’s production of Wagner’s RhineGold came to Symphony Hall in Summer 2021. Performed in English, with its full musical forces: an orchestra of 87 players from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, a stellar international cast plus local volunteers. 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
Birmingham Opera Company's 2009 'Othello' featured Ronald Samm, the first black tenor to sing the title role in the UK. Read more
In the past 10 years alone, Birmingham Opera Company has performed in over 200 spaces: in youth centres, homeless shelters, disused factories and now the iconic Tower Ballroom in Edgbaston. Read more
In 2007 we collaborated with The Arena di Verona to stage a production of a scale rarely seen in the UK: La Traviata in the National Indoor Arena (NIA) in front of 10,000 people. Read more
Actions will be weighed and counted... When the time comes, pay the price. And he did... Read more
"The show was the most exquisite, challenging and enjoyable experience I have ever had." Read more