A blog for Birmingham Opera's production of Othello in December 2009.
Birmingham Opera Company
is not what you expect from opera!
Born of a passion and a belief that opera can speak directly to all kinds of people, Artistic Director, Graham Vick, set out to create a company that the people of Birmingham - a city of many peoples - could be proud of.
This means creating and staging opera in unpredictable and unusal places close to the streets of the city. 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.
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 3 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.
Birmingham Opera Company
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Dear Audience don’t forget – shoes won’t be allowed on the carpet in the performances area but we will be providing you all with socks when you come to the performance!!!
The actors were rehearsing the opening of Othello with Graham by sorting out their roles and scenes. I can’t disclose too much as it would be no surprise anymore.
Tomorrow I will join the Chorus rehearsal. Let’s see how far they’ve progressed as they have been rehearsing for 4 weeks. I like the musical power of the chorus. It always gives me the creeps.
That’s all for the beginning. I’ll let you know soon how we steam ahead with Othello.
