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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 …
In Opera Australia’s season for 2024 they digress away from the usual Romantic period regulars to visit ancient times. In September will be a rendition of the poem of Gilgamesh performed at Carriageworks and presently, the company is delving into …
Sydney Opera House is currently celebrating its 50th Anniversary and, to add to the festivities, Opera Australia offered a concert version of La Gioconda by Ponchielli last night (9 August 2023). It was a superb cast of mostly international performers …
The famous “Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour” Otherwise known as “Barcarolle” from the Giulietta Act of the Tales of Hoffmann sung by Anna Netrebko and Elina Garanca.
Sydney Opera House hosted the world premiere of Opera Australia’s The Tales of …
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 …
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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 …
Opera Australia today announced it had secured the world’s most in demand tenor, Jonas Kaufmann to perform his first ever fully staged opera in Australia when the Company presents
Wagner’s Lohengrin in Melbourne in May. Rarely performing outside Europe these …
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isitors to the Sydney Opera House this summer will have the opportunity to enjoy Gale Edwards’ much loved production of Puccini’s La Bohème for the very last time as Opera Australia announces 2022 will be its final Sydney season.…
Opera Australia has added another outdoor spectacular to its program, today announcing the inaugural New Year’s Eve Opera Gala on Cockatoo Island.
The Cockatoo Island event is in addition to OA’s annual NYE opera performance in the Joan Sutherland Theatre …
Opera Australia will continue its successful partnership with the NSW Government through Destination NSW, announcing that next year’s Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour will present one of the most successful musicals of all time, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s, The Phantom of …