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 …
Above : This concert event featured several costume changes from Jessica Pratt , including this concept for Amina’s mad scene from Donzietti’s ‘La Sonnambula’. Photo by Marco Borelli. Featured image: Pratt presents her personal take on the famous mad sceme …
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 …
Above: Opera Australia Dancers. Featured image: David Parkin as The King and the Opera Australia Chorus and Dancers. LED lighting effects and projections by D-Wok. Photo credit : Keith Saunders.
This grand opera by Giuseppe Verdi, intended to glorify Egypt …
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Sydney had an unexpected treat last night when the Australian Haydn Ensemble presented a unique program of rarely heard music. Titled “Die Stille Nacht” the crowd were expecting a fairly predictable line-up of well known Baroque pieces. …
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 …
