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Culture: High opera on the mean streets; Christopher Morley finds Birmingham Opera Company's radical Votzek a challenging and musically rewarding experiment, despite some logistical problems.

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20010222
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Byline: Christopher Morley

Forget every word Dr Johnson wrote about opera being 'an exotic, irrational entertainment'.

There is nothing escapist about this production from the newly renamed Birmingham Opera Company, there is nothing mindless about it and it certainly is not entertainment as most opera-goers would understand it.

As part of its re-thought ethos, BOC is determined to involve community groups in works which throw up important social concerns; Berg's Wozzeck, with its sordid tale of an exploited loser, forced to submit himself to medical experiments in ...

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