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Founded in 1987 as City of Birmingham Touring Opera to produce smaller-scale work suitable for touring throughout the UK. CBTO pioneered a style of opera production now followed by many others. In 2001 Birmingham Opera Company emerged from CBTO to investigate whether it would be possible to create a company that people in the city could be a part of and would support in the broader sense.
‘It means opening the doors and inviting people in to watch you work and to work with you. This means sharing great art with great people. It’s a different way of making opera… not tied to bricks and mortar... nor tied to having a big organisation.’ - Birmingham Opera
PMF involvement:
1996-1997 audience development
April 2005 Monteverdi's Ulysses Comes Home presented in a disused ice rink in Birmingham. Shortlisted for an RPS Award in the Audience Development and Education category.
September 2006 Mozart's He had it coming (Don Giovanni). Shortlisted for the RPS opera and music theatre award.
October 2007 Verdi’s La traviata. Directed by Graham Vick, designed by Paul Brown and conducted by Massimiliano Stefanelli. |