4 ½ stars
The Joan Sutherland Theatre had a full house last night for the 2025 opening night of Opera Australia’s “The Barber of Seville” by Rossini. With a big cruise ship birthed at the Circular …
Above: Christopher Tonkin as Siegfried and Kanen Breen as Roy. Photo credit: Neil Bennett. Featured image: Jacquie Manning.
Opera is a special storytelling option with which to bring us a larger than life biopic. Receiving its world premiere at the …
Above: Jane Sheldon as Ishtar, the goddess of love. Featured image: Jeremy Kleeman as Gilgamesh. ‘Gilgamesh’ Presented by Opera Australia, Sydney Chamber Opera & Carriageworks. Photo Credit: Daniel Boud.
Our modern society would do well to heed the epic epithets …
Above: Opera singer Sarah Ampil interacts with her shadow (Sophie Rogut). Images supplied.
This striking fringe event explores through the vehicle of accessible opera performance the dangers of love, hope and various levels of punishments.
The trials of love unrequited, …
Above: Nathan Lay as Guglielmo, Nardus Williams as Fiordiligi, Helen Sherman as Dorabella, Filipe Manu as Ferrando and cast. Featured image: Nardus Williams as Fiordiligi Photo Credit: Keith Saunders.
Entropy has never been so elegant as in Mozart’s late opera, …
I have to say that I’m not a regular opera goer. The reality is that most operas are in a foreign language. To follow the narrative you have to read the surtitles. My eyes can handle deciphering subtitles in …
Above: Virgilio Marino as Tinca, Olivia Cranwell as Giorgetta, Viktor Antipenko as Luigi and cast in ‘Il Tabarro’. Photo Credit: Keith Saunders. Featured image: Adele Johnston as The Abbess, Sian Sharp as The Monitor and Helen Sherman as Mistress of …
4 1/2 stars
There is always excitement when Opera Australia launches a new production, particularly for an old favourite from the repertoire. It was a full house for the opening of Tosca at the Joan Sutherland Theatre in the Sydney …
Pic by Simon Ross
Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc is a
Above: Opera Australia chorus and Tomáš Kantor as The Lost Boy perform in front of one of the powerful projection sets, which often included real photography and newspaper clippings from the time. Featured image: dancer Macon Escobal Riley and Tomáš …