Graham Vick’s Stockhausen vision receives RPS Opera Award
16.05.13The Opera and Music Theatre Award in the 2013 RPS Music Awards was presented yesterday to Birmingham Opera Company for Artistic Director Graham Vick’s world premiere stage production of Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht. This visionary project was mounted in August last year at the Argyle Works, a disused factory in the Digbeth district of inner city Birmingham.
The RPS citation was as follows:
“In an Olympian year, rich with strong productions of contemporary and 20th century opera, the jury chose Birmingham Opera Company for its remarkable production of Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht, a world premiere, bold in imagination and brilliant in accomplishment, both hallmarks of this company’s approach to reinventing opera for today”