Opera Australia launched their 2023 season of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto last night at the Sydney Opera House Joan Sutherland Theatre to a good size crowd. Verdi set the opera based around Victor Hugo’s highly controversial play “Le roi s’amuse” or …
Sydney’s City Recital Hall hosted the opening night to a fresh opera production from Pinchgut Opera last night. The opera is “Giustino” (pronounced Joo-STEEN-orh) by Giovanni Legrenzi. Have you heard of Legrenzi before? Maybe not. Yet, through the late 1600’s …
This July the Rockdale Opera Company is proud to present Gaetano Donizetti’s enduring, joyous and ever popular comic opera,THE ELIXIR OF LOVE.
A score filled with melody from the beginning to its joyously happy ending, it features some …
Above: Karah Son as Cio-Cio-San with Diego Torre as Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton on the set which makes use of the familiar Sydney skyline to bring the tale home. Featured image: the full magnificence of the Handa Opera on the Harbour …
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Opera Australia is presenting the final part to the trilogy of the three Tudor Queen operas by Donizetti at the Sydney Opera House. First was Anna Bolena based around Henry VIII’s second wife; then Maria Stuarda, Mary Queen …
You may have heard stories about how I used to be an actor with Opera Australia. Well, I am here to set the record straight. They are mostly true and even those that are not, are probably based on fact. …
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Last night the audience settled in to the Opera House for an Australian premiere production of Adriana Lecouvreur composed by Francesco Cilèa. It’s a lesser known opera by a lesser known composer so the house was not busting …
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An opera company chorus. That triple-threat troupe which moves, acts and sings across any production stage, weaving in and out amongst the principals. Its members are flexible headliners of mood change, atmosphere, narrative, theme and they gild many …
Opera Australia’s highly acclaimed Chorus will step into the spotlight of the Joan Sutherland Theatre this summer as the stars of a new work aptly named Chorus!.
This brand-new staged concert will showcase the Chorus’ 48 powerful voices through …
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