Opera Australia begin their 2015 season yet again with this excellent revival of Gale Edwards’s version of LA BOHEME, originally seen in 2011 .
Romantic and lyrically, passionately performed by cast and orchestra it still feels as fresh as if …
Dance: The Royal Ballet screening of Giselle with Natalia Osipova (she is amazing) and the Royal Ballet screening of A Winter’s Tale with Edward Watson (he is incredible). Scattered Rhymes by Rafael Bonachela for Sydney Dance (part of their Louder …
Although I saw many wonderful shows and operas in the year, my favourite show of the year was THE ELIXIR OF LOVE at the Opera House.
The production with its Australian setting at the start of WWI, was just hilarious. …
THE MERRY WIDOW is a substantial and well known work of the operetta genre. It is set in Paris and tells the tale of a rich widow, her womanising suitors, and the foreign embassy with its agenda to keep the …
Modern news reports often feature tragic and grisly tales of murdered lovers and what happens when love triangles break. Ruggero Leoncavallo had all this reported in his nineteenth century opera PAGLIACCI. This realist opera completed the Sydney Independent Opera’s 2014 …
If anyone ever had cause to doubt the power of Opera to stir the human spirit then just have a look at the history to the children’s opera, BRUNDIBAR.
At their lowest ebb, imprisoned in the hell of the Terezin …
This comic opera gem by Donizetti is being performed in a rollicking revival production by Opera Australia. Simon Phillips’ direction of the opera buffa is set in rural Australia in 1915, complete with typical soldiers and civilians. It manages to …
Musically this new version of Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ is superb and thrilling with spectacularly brilliant performances from the wonderful orchestra under Maestro Jonathan Darlington (featuring the fortepiano played by Siro Battaglin for the recitative) and the glorious cast led by …
One of the most unusual works I have seen in a while, the world premiere of MAYAKOVSKY, composed by Michael Smetanin and libretto by Alison Croggon, is given a powerful, striking performance at Carriageworks by the Sydney Chamber Opera.
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This new Opera Australia production, directed by Roger Hodgman, of Verdi’s 1851 much loved work replaces the Elijah Moshinsky version and is very exciting . The plot and dramatic structure of Rigoletto is simultaneously sordid and absorbing with its overtones …