TOSCA is a tour de force opera, delivering sweeping, lush orchestration and intense drama.
Puccini’s melodrama thrusts a volatile opera diva, a sadistic, lustful yet sophisticated head of police, and an idealistic artist to collide head on.
Audiences often find …
Stuart Skelton, the award winning Australian tenor and star of the English National Opera’s (ENO) production of PETER GRIMES will make a special live appearances at the PETER GRIMES screenings at Event Cinemas, Cronulla on Saturday October 10 at 3pm…
Czech composer, musical theorist and folklorist Leos Janácek’s (1854-1928) THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN, first performed in 1924, features a huge, lush, romantic score.
This work tells the story of a beautiful, glorious vixen and the Forester who tries to tame …
Don Alhambra del Bolero the Grand Inquisitor commands that you attend and greatly enjoy this effervescent production of THE GONDOLIERS by the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera, Sydney.
The silly plot of arguably one of the most loved G& S operettas …
Seldom has Sydney been treated to such a marvellous musical and visual feast. Thunderous applause, cheers and screams of bravo greeted the end of this sensational production of Mozart’s THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, directed by Sir David McVicar.
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As part of David Stratton’s Great British Film Festival currently screening at the Cremorne Orpheum we have a rare chance to see this classic 1951 film. Brought to us by the team who also made The Red Shoes, (also …
This production of Don Carlos is the 1884 four-act version and is an extremely impressive revival of the magnificent 1999 Elijah Moshinsky staging. It is the biggest production by Opera Australia since the recent Ring Cycle in Melbourne and at …
Verdi’s classic tragedy of the ‘fallen woman’, LA TRAVIATA, is enjoying a revival in Sydney via the lush realism of director Elijah Moshinsky’s 1994 version. The motifs of fragility, sacrifice and disintegration emerge from the striking detail of the salon …
Tarantara ! Tarantara!
Yes, it is the wonderful English National Opera in their wickedly delightful version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s ever popular THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE directed by Mike Leigh.
Leigh ‘s film is a vibrant and essentially traditional production, …
The latest treasure to be given a southern hemisphere premiere by Pinchgut Opera is Vivaldi’s BAJAZET. Conductor Erin Helyard maintains momentum throughout this lengthy opera written in 1735 with his precise energy, and detailed gestures.
From a time before copyright …