Created in Birmingham

Time for another one of these I reckon.

If you spot a review, some photos, film or whatever (or produce something yourself) then let me know in the comments.  I’ll be searching out what I can and hopefully we’ll collect together some interestingness.

First up the Birmingham Opera Company website and the Birmingham Opera Design Brains Trust blog which has profiles of the people involved and sneak previews from July when rehearsals were going on and the building was being prepared.

Reviews

• Guardian
• The Times
• Birmingham Post
• John Mostyn
• Ennuyer.net
• Metro
• Pete Ashton
• The Stirrer
• Whatsonstage Midlands
• The Observer
• The Telegraph
• The Independent
• Andy Pryke
• Russ L

Photos

• chai wallah
• Birmingham Post
• Pete Ashton

The Birmingham Opera Company, which was faced with cuts to its funding not so long ago, will return to the stage next month with a production of Mozart’s Idomeneo.

As it says on the website:

We don’t have an opera house and we don’t work in conventional theatres. We conjure our theatres out of spaces used for other purposes or maybe just abandoned

Not arf.  This time they’ve taken over the empty Sherborne Rubber Factory building just off Ladywood Middleway (map here).

There are a few details on the Birmingham Opera Company site but there’s more to come soon.  Although it does say performances will be roughly every other day between 12 and 23 August and tickets will be on sale soon.

Head nod to the Audiences Central blog.