Last night, Opera Australia launched their 2025 Winter season with a bang at Sydney Opera House. Georges Bizet’s Carmen is one of the most popular and most performed operas in the …
Opera Australia opened La Traviata last night at the Joan Sutherland Theatre in Sydney Opera House. With a big cruise ship in Circular Quay there were many Americans in the audience and the house was filled to overflowing. The …
This is a magnificent revival of the chilling , thrilling David McVicar production.
As the audience enters, the curtain hangs almost as if partly torn down. Eventually it rises to reveal Robert Jones’s huge ash grey set that makes the …
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 …