EARLY BIRD ENDS 31 AUGUST! Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Sydney presents – The Mikado! Enjoy some beautiful music and hilarious performances. The Mikado is a one of the best known G&S Opera’s. The show has been freshened up, but it …
OSCAR AND LUCINDA , the latest production by Sydney Chamber Opera is co- produced and commissioned by Opera Queensland and Victorian Opera. Based on the book by Peter Carey with music by Elliott Gyger and libretto by Pierce Wilcox it …
On August 8 and 11 this year (in a few day’s time) Jonas Kaufmann returns to the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall to relive the success he made of Giordano’s Andrea Chenier. This performance is a concert version. He …
It was the evening of March 4, 1960. The time was 9.55pm. At the Metropolitan Opera House in New York baritone Leonard Warren had just finished singing his Don Carlo aria in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino which begins ‘Morir, …
Jose Carbo is sitting in a café drinking black coffee. His partner, coloratura soprano Jenna Robertson is with him. She is drinking black coffee as well. They are both gluten-intolerant.
Carbo discovered he suffered from the ailment the hard way. …
I suppose it started because I was besotted with acting and singing. Psychiatrists would have a field day – something to do with deprivation as a child, not enough cuddles or lack of affection in ‘ze formatif yearz’. So when …
The Qantas Flight from London to Sydney developed a minor mechanical glitch just prior to landing in Bangkok, Thailand. As a result the passengers were sent to various hotels in the city for some much needed rest. We certainly …
Eight young emerging operatic stars will be competing on Sunday 4 August at The Concourse, Chatswood, to win Sydney Eisteddfod’s coveted Opera Scholarship worth in excess of $61,000.
This year, for the first time since 1995, an all-girl final has …
Brett Whiteley is a name many Australians would immediately recognise. His artwork shone so brightly and uniquely he was judged and awarded as a true genius the world over. The youngest artist ever (to this day) to have his work …
The story of Henry VIII and his many wives is well known but the opera by Donizetti based around Henry’s second wife Anne Boleyn, mother of the eventual Queen Elizabeth I, is not often performed. The reason for its rarity …