It’s surprising we didn’t blow the roof off the Sydney Opera House last night as Opera Australia launched into their opening night of AIDA a revived version of Davide Livermore’s production from a few years back. The chorus were on …
A new Australian opera CHOP CHEF has opened at The Riverside in Parramatta. This delight is able to be sampled in person or digitally via Riverside Theatres Digital.
Western Sydney’s own Blush Opera created this dark funny satire of TV …
The live audience was ecstatic with thunderous applause for Pinchgut’s magnificent, finely burnished and lushly detailed performance of Monteverdi’s VESPERS. Fortunately you can catch it online at the moment until 1 May, 2021.
Written in 1610, Monteverdi’s VESPERS (…
What is a Pocket Opera? It’s an abridged version of a longer work trimmed down to all the best arias and musical pieces. A quick fix for those in a hurry, but also an ideal vehicle to showcase talent in …
Opera Australia has partnered with The Bourne Foundation to offer year 11 and 12 students $20 tickets to see Verdi’s La Traviata, during its current season at Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour.
School students with an interest in music, drama, …
After such a deluge of rain and flooding around New South Wales last week, thoughts drifted towards perhaps the need for Noah’s Ark. There must have been much nail biting as to the weather leading up to opening night …
There was a break in the rain revealing a glorious, sunny Sydney skyline and stage infrastructure for this season’s performances of LA TRAVIATA at Mrs Macquarie’s Chair.
This production was delayed for over a year due to the Covid19 lockdown. …
Vale Taryn Fiebig- February 1, 1972 – March 20, 2021
Multi award-winning Australian music theatre and opera star Taryn Fiebig, who made Prince Charles cry with her artistry, passed away in Sydney last night from ovarian cancer, aged 49. An …
Standing out in stark contrast to the rest of this year’s offering, Opera Australia (OA) offers the modern creation of Béla Bartók, BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE. A story of intrigue, innocence, violence and cunning.
As a young man, Bartók set off to …
The Joan Sutherland Theatre was roaring with applause in the first opening opera night this year to be permitted full capacity audience after almost twelve months. The crowd was keen, the performers were keen and the mutual admiration left everyone …