This chamber production of COSI FAN TUTTE was performed by a group of young opera students. This gave it a freshness that was most enjoyable.
The opera was reset to modern Sydney with the main characters living on the North …
It has been said that there are two emotions, love and fear. The creative pairing of Puccini and Graeme Murphy is successful in vividly outlining such feelings in the current revival of Murphy’s stunning production.
Conductor Christian Badea presents a …
The UK’s leading producer of world-class opera, the English National Opera (ENO), present their 2015 season of magical performances in Australia cinemas for the very first time as part of the ENO Screen season.
Performed in English by the stars …
DIVALICIOUS –OPERA ROCKS! uses vocal music of several styles with well-placed humour. Its slick and expressively-nuanced comic pastiche blends opera with an assortment of stage backgrounds, styles and origins.
0ther adjectives describing this event’s energy may well include vicious, flirtatious, …
The 2015 Handa Opera season, with an exciting, expressive and modern interpretation of Verdi’s AIDA further enriches the environment of al fresco entertainment in Sydney. The tale of war, religion, desire and revenge evolves on a grand scale with an …
Succumb to Mephistopheles power in this lavish, opulent, thrilling production. Visually stunning, musically glorious, with three superb leading performers, this is a magical highlight of this year’s Opera Australia season.
The Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra under the energetic, dynamic …
Puccini’s early twentieth century opera MADAMA BUTTERFLY offers soloists and audience much of what they relish in the genre. The main characters are complex, with savage twists and turns in their emotional journeys. The music serves the drama well as …
Opera Australia has pulled out all the stops in this thrilling revival of the rather controversial version of Puccini’s TOSCA as directed by John Bell. The production was first seen in 2013.
Musically and vocally, this production is fabulous. The …
Opera Australia is currently revisiting the Metropolitan Opera’s production of THE MAGIC FLUTE, first performed in Sydney in 2014. It is a stunning and simply beautiful illustration of the endurance of opera in a modern guise. Its scenes repeatedly proclaim …