Unpacking Timothee Chalamet’s "No one cares" about opera and ballet comments. B'Opera and RoguePlay's circus opera première of Under the Moon Timothée Chalamet of Wonka fame, pronounced that “No one cares” about opera or ballet when talking to Matthew McConaughey at the University of Texas, as you’ll see in this clip originally shared by Variety. He’s faced a considerable backlash from fellow artists, particularly and not surprisingly those working in opera and ballet. So le

B'Opera's Hello Bird, Hello Fish! in Sparkhill, Birmingham Ah, AI - the world’s favourite new toy. Last year someone got wind of the fact that we were creating a new piece of children’s first opera-theatre about clouds, and decided to ask Chat GPT to come up with a draft for a song, which they then shared with us.  It went: (Verse 1) In the sky so high, where the blue meets white, There's a magical world, such a wondrous sight. Clouds of every kind, big and small, Drifting an

B'Opera Relaxed Concert - Photo by Akram Elmsibah When we started B’Opera, we wanted to give little children and their grown ups an...

This work has the power to bring people together, to break down barriers, and to remind individuals that their voices matter

Image from Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP The shocking-to-some news is in, that Birmingham City Council has announced cuts to all...

We’ve spent a significant amount of this summer living out of suitcases and camping, so our main activity has been hunting for clean...

The Magic Flute - Welsh National Opera Wales Millennium Centre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Image credit: WNO If there's to be opera in the future, today's...

One of last year's big projects was finishing the Certificate for Music Educators in Early Childhood (CME:EC) accredited by Trinity...

When we centre the voices of women and children, we contribute to breaking down patriarchal norms.* Here's how we go about this at...

We groan and grumble when our little ones discover the word “no”. I mean, in our carefully ordered lives where we like to have a little...

Zoë Challenor - Director, B’Opera What struck me most about B’Opera’s first sharing of Hello Bird, Hello Fish! was that the audience...

Coming to England at Birmingham Rep Theatre I’ve had two lightbulb experiences recently, both a result of engaging with the arts. The...

Photo by Simran Sood on Unsplash What images pop up for you when you think of the word "Mother"? If you fancy making an experiment of it,...

Imagine Imagine a world where you're free to be you Instead of being labelled pink or blue Imagine a world that's a little more true...

Read on for our selection of Christmas gift ideas from small businesses, many of them local, mum-run, and ethical. We're aiming to help...

We believe that, like us, you want to leave a planet worth living on for our babies and toddlers. So do you really want to give them more...

Emergency hospital visits and getting flooded was not what I planned for a half term holiday. They say life is what happens when you’ve...

Birmingham Opera Company's Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, 2019 Photo by Zoë Challenor “Music already belongs to everyone. The democratic wonder...

Photo credit: Original photo Anh Nguyen, butchered by Zoe Challenor For mothers everywhere this Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week 1) ...

monotony," from monotonos "of one and the same tone" It started with us winding the windows down and blasting ABBA out of the car...