Under the director Graham Vick , Birmingham Opera Company has forged a groundbreaking mix of international professional opera production and street-level performances involving people who live and work in the city. Music Matters goes to Birmingham for rehearsals of their latest large-scale production: Monteverdi's epic opera Ulysses Comes Home. Plus a look at The Musical Madhouse - the first complete English translation of Les Grotesgues de la Musique, one of the composer Berlioz's most compelling and witty literary works, consisting of anecdotes, open letters and comments on the absurdities of concert life.
Presented by Tom Service . Producer Paul Frankl