Opera Australia currently celebrates Guiseppe Verdi’s OTELLO with a very fine revival currently playing at the Sydney Opera House.
This production was first successfully presented in 2003, then returned in 2008. Costumed as twentieth century civilians, officers, senators or ambassadors, …
The Independent Opera presented Opera two in their 2014 season at Sydney’s Russian Club. Russian vocal, operatic and orchestral music was highlighted in the program’s first half. In the second half, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s one-act realist opera, MOZART AND SALIERI, gave …
Harbour City Opera’s Mother’s Day concert used superb and passionately blended ingredients with which to bake us intensely flavoured delights. BECAUSE I SAID SO was a well-packaged and marketable concept. A crowd-pleaser with champagne, show bags and afternoon tea, it …
The talents of the Sydney Independent Opera begin 2014 by luring us into the world of opera buffa, in particular an engaging excursion into fine voiced French humour. This is in great contrast to the dramatic and full-scale operatic works …
This is a magnificent ,inspired production of Tchaikovsky’s lyrical 1879 opera based on Pushkin’s novel .It is a new co-production from London directed by Kasper Holten, the ROH’s new( ish ) director of Opera.
Designers Mia Stensgaard (set) and Katrina …
On a dismal, soggy, grey and wet afternoon we in the sold out audience were treated to a glorious concert by the Willoughby Symphony celebrating Verdi.
Act 1 had excerpts mostly from ‘Rigoletto’ and Act 2 concentrated on ‘La Traviata’ …
George Bizet’s CARMEN has been wowing opera-goers for over 140 years now with its alluring mixture of the unpredictable and dangerous, love and loathing, and, as the program notes state, “the ultimate femme fatale is back to stamp her feet, …
It is hard to believe that this is the bicentenary of the first production of this work, and that it has been rarely performed. An absolute musical and visual treat, a hilarious blaze of slapstick and colour, ‘The Turk in …
What a fabulous way to start off 2014 with this magnificent revival of Gale Edwards’s version of LA BOHEME, originally seen in 2011.
Lush, lyrical and romantic, passionately performed by cast and orchestra it feels as fresh as if it …
Death or liberty!
As big as ‘Ben Hur’ or ‘Les Miserables’ , huge , sprawling ,long and epic, volcanically powerful, dramatic and passionate this is a magnificent version of this rarely seen Verdi opera , part of the Royal Opera …