Australia’s biggest outdoor stage is set for one of Puccini’s most loved, and most performed, operas. Opera Australia’s much anticipated Handa Opera production of Madama Butterfly on Sydney Harbour is an agonising story of unrequited love and imperialist capitalism that…
David McVicar’s third revival of his highly celebrated 2014 Don Giovanni has hit the stage at Sydney Opera House with a dramatically dark and rampantly carnal production. Mozart’s Don Giovanni is an infamous tale of a pleasure-seeker’s demise and is…
The golden age of musicals has made a triumphant return to Sydney, with Cinderella currently playing at the Lyric Theatre. Opera Australia and John Frost for Crossroads Live, two stalwarts of Australian performing arts, have come together to stage this…
Fi-ga-ro, Figaro, FIGGGAARROOO!! He’s the slick barber and matchmaking maestro with wits and tricks as sharp as his scissors. Opera Australia’s 26th annual National Tour – a formidable program of just over two months and more than 20 regional centres…
For almost 40 years The Phantom of the Opera has haunted stages around the world. Now for the first time ever, this timeless phenomenon takes centre stage at the iconic Sydney Opera House. Cameron Mackintosh’s dazzling revamp is a gloriously…
OK, first things first. For those of us who are not operatic doyens, “In Concert” means performed as a recital rather than a play. So no Tudor sets. No wigs, crowns or cod-pieces. No banners, scaffold or axe. Rather than…
A young woman lies dead at the hands of her new husband in a shocking murder-suicide. Jealousy and domestic violence were issues in Shakespeare’s day, 400 years ago, still present in Verdi’s day, 150 years ago, and are sadly as…
My plus one at the opening night of Opera Australia’s current production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro was my husband. He had been wanting to see this particular opera for years. His favourite movie of all time, The Shawshank…
If it were at all possible to add more horsepower and octane to Verdi’s tour d’force Aida, Opera Australia’s rendition now playing at the Sydney Opera House has found a way. Director Davide Livermore and Conductor Lorenzo Passerini have risen…
We were looking forward to it a full year ago. Now, after more anticipation than we could ever have imagined in a pre-Covid world, La Traviata has finally arrived to Sydney Harbour and does not disappoint. It is a spectacle…