Above: Julie Lea Goodwin and male cast in one of many effective tableaux that punctuate this vibrant, physical version of Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow. Featured image: Alexander Lewis as Danilo Danilovich with Julie Lea Goodwin as Hannah Glavari. Photos: …
Above: (l-r) sopranos Camilla Wright and Lana Kains performed with buffa excellence in the opera and Singspiel by Salieri and Mozart. This and featured photos: Rosa Doric.
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2026 Opera Australia continue celebrating 70 years of arts and entertainment with Phantom of the Opera on Sydney Harbour. In perfect timing, The Phantom itself is celebrating 40 years this year as well. Revived from the 2022 original of …
Opera Australia has dug into the library and revived its 2014 production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin by Danish Director Kasper Holten. Holten showed early promise in his career and, at the age of 27 was appointed the youngest Artistic …
Last night Opera Australia launched their revived version of the opera Hansel and Gretel. This version is a revival of the 1990s version staged and directed by Elijah Moshinsky. The opera is based on an original fairy …
Giacomo Puccini wrote the opera in 1924 amidst a turbulent time. The composer’s full name was Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini. His music is revered and performed 100 years on. The production at Sydney Opera House is as …
Opera Australia’s 70th anniversary year has begun its first production with the return of one of its most loved productions, Director Moffat Oxenbould’s production of MADAMA BUTTERFLY (composer Giacomo Puccini, librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa).
The scenario …
Endangered Productions are a relatively new company and are perfectly positioned to provide the much needed rungs on the ladder …
This was an intimate candle lit evening listening to beautiful soprano voices share the stories of Emily Dickinson through her poems.
The scene is set with an insightful introduction to Emily Dickinson’s studied history from Operantics organiser and soprano Katie …
Celebrated operatic couple Cheryl Barker AO and Peter Coleman-Wright AO play out the perfect marriage in Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti but behind the glossy veneer of American suburbia, lurks their loneliness and longings.
Bernstein penned the stinging words …