How on earth is Pinchgut Opera going to follow up their new production of Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen”? This time, they have truly outdone themselves with an awe inspiring spectacle. The baroque opera features music chock full of exquisite …
Above: Opera Australia Chorus and Circa Ensemble in Dido & Aeneas. Featured image: CIRCA Ensemble members take flight on the Dida and Aeneas stage. Photo credit: Keith Saunders.
A terrific amount hangs in the balance in this striking, unforgettable new …
Featuring pianist Nathaniel Kong
Music by Kurt Weill | Libretto by Bertolt Brecht – 4 Stars
The Seven Deadly Sins, composed in 1933 in Germany, is a ‘sung ballet’ that seamlessly …
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 …
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 …
