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About Birmingham Opera Company

Born of a passion and a belief that opera can speak directly to all kinds of people, Founding Artistic Director, the late Graham Vick, set out to create a company that the people of Birmingham - a city of many peoples - could be proud of. Now led by Richard Willacy, General Director and with Birmingham born Music Director Alpesh Chauhan this work continues to grow and seeks to include more opportunities than ever for the artists and communities to grow together. Our work is holistic- when a session in a community centre is taking place, we looking for ways to develop our new programme of multi scale commissioning and performance projects. We see the fruits of this endeavour in our artists, communities and volunteers and audiences. We create and present opera in unpredictable and unusual places close to the streets of the city. We open doors and invite people in to watch as we work and to work with you. We share a great art with great people. It's a different way of making opera. 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. A brief period of illumination and then we move on - not tied to bricks and mortar… …nor tied to having a big organisation. By having only 4 people working full-time from a single office in the Jewellery Quarter we can reinvent the company for each project. This way the company exists to make the art and not the other way round.

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