Stockhausen opera to be staged in full for first time – helicopters and all

Birmingham Opera Company performance of Mittwoch aus Licht for London 2012 festival will have flying soloists and two choirsIt is not the headache of four separate helicopters carrying string quartet performers that is keeping Graham Vick awake at night. It is more, he confessed, the strain of 11 flying string and woodwind soloists that is exercising his mind ahead of the first performance of one of the world's most unusual operas.Birmingham Opera Company has announced it is to stage one of the ...

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