The lives of Brummies, the lives of lost venues – the lives we live online, the lives we lived in the past.
Birmingham Opera Company’s latest project, RE-WIRE brings together six short contemporary operas in one production curated by director Melly Still.
Running from 28 to 30 April 2026 the performances take place at the newly opened Forum Digbeth nightclub. There, across three cabaret stages the lives of six Brummies, past and present will unfold.
The operas are directed by Harriet Taylor, Finn Lacey and Lucy Bird, with Jonny Danciger as creative director and Harry Lai as project music director. The cast features Robert Forrest, Themba Mvula, Joseph Doody, Lea Shaw, Georgia Mae Bishop, Rosalind Dobson alongside a chorus of over 100 Brummie actors, singers and dancers.
The six operas are Aidan Teplitzky’s Mothers, Romarna Campbell’s The Quiet Rebellion Continues, Georgia Barnes’ From Mumsnet with love, Franki Dodwell’s Cause and Effect, Leon Clowes’ Absent Fathers and Aaron Nihal King and Sam Norman’s Electric.
The event’s publicity suggests that you:
Ditch the digital. Scroll out of the doom… …AND INTO THE ROOM RE-WIRE your mind
Further details from Birmingham Opera Company’s website.
