Recent awards and nominations

Birmingham Opera Company gets gold at the International Opera Awards 2021!

Great news for Birmingham from the International Opera Awards! Read more

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk nominated for South Bank Sky Arts Award

We're thrilled that our 2022 production of Wagner's RhineGold was nominated for a South Bank Sky Arts Award! Read more

Birmingham Opera Company wins the FEDORA Education Prize 2020

Birmingham Opera Company has been chosen as the winner of the FEDORA Education Prize 2020! Read more

Birmingham Opera Company wins 2019 RPS "Oscar"

Much excitement here in Birmingham! Lady Macbeth has won the 2019 "Opera Oscar" - The Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Opera & Music Theatre. Read more

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RhineGold (Wagner) | 2021

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.
A Note to the Nation

We've kicked off a new strand of work by associate artists and composers with a new project co-created with a group of homegrown young talent and our new Artistic Associate, Michael Betteridge.
Slava Ukraini!

We stand for the people and nation of Ukraine together with Opera Europa's 220 member companies. Slava Ukraini!

WAKE - World Premiere - SOLD OUT

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.
Wagner's RhineGold

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.
SOLD OUT

WAKE- World Premiere- SOLD OUT
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Sir Graham Vick CBE+ - Founder Artistic Director

One of the foremost opera directors of our times. Sadly Graham passed away 17 July 2021.
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Sir Graham Vick: 30 December 1953 - 17 July 2021

We have been devastated by the loss of our Artistic Director, Sir Graham Vick, and touched by the tributes and messages that have reached us from all over the world.