Our night at the Opry
We went to the opry last night,
‘Twere a grand and a costly affair;
Our Jim lost an arm an’ I lost a leg
Just for parkin’ our charabanc there.
Jim’s wife were garbed in …
Opera Australia today announced that eminent international performing arts leader Fiona Allan has been appointed as the Company’s next Chief Executive Officer.
Ms Allan will return to Australia following a stellar career in the United Kingdom, where she has led …
To quote Basil Fawlty I am about to ask the bleeding obvious. Have the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas finally done their dash? They are over a century old, the text and libretti must be obsolete by now and surely the …
My singing teacher mentioned it to me first, this curse that Verdi’s opera La Forza del Destino (heretofore called La Forza) carries with it whenever it is performed. At the time, I didn’t give it much thought but recently, …
Opera Australia (OA) has announced that its Sydney winter season is unable to proceed due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions
The ongoing restrictions have prevented OA from adequately preparing and performing during this time.
Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini expressed the Company’s
Returning by popular demand, Riverside Theatres will present critically acclaimed show Chop Chef from Blush Opera, streaming in an exclusive online Watch Party on the Riverside Theatres Digital platform until 10pm 1st August, 2021.
Chop Chef is a dark, satirical …
Opera Australia is disappointed to announce the forced postponement of their production of The Phantom of the Opera that was scheduled to open at the Sydney Opera House in September and Arts Centre Melbourne in November.
The company has taken …
Opera Australia (OA) today announced that Damiano Michieletto’s new production of The Tales of Hoffmann, due to open at the Sydney Opera House on 2 August, is to be postponed to a future season due to the NSW Government’s …
Jessica Louise Pratt had asked her mother to send a vacuum cleaner up to her room while she was quarantined in Brisbane. The room they’d put her in wasn’t very big and for a person used to living in …
Märta Birgit Nilsson (17 May 1918 – 25 December 2005) was a celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide repertory of operatic and vocal works, Nilsson was best known for her performances in the operas of Richard Wagner …