Documentary about Birmingham Opera Company's Othello performance to be shown on TV
A GROUND-breaking performance by Birmingham Opera Company of Shakespeare’s Othello was such a success it is to be immortalised on TV.
The company’s sell-out run of Verdi’s Othello was staged recently at the Argyle Works in Digbeth.
Directed by Graham Vick and conducted by Stephen Barlow, the production will be the subject of a BBC documentary.
The programme will focus on two of Mr Vick’s Verdi productions: the spectacular, big budget Aida in Austria, which attracted audiences of 7,000 people a night, and the smaller Birmingham version of Othello.
Unlike Aida, Othello was a low-key production in a former industrial plant in inner-city Birmingham.
The cast included 250 local people, including singers, actors and dancers.
