Blush Opera presents a chamber opera about making home-made furniture at this year’s Bondi Feast Festival. Composer and Co-AD Paul Smith tells us why.

Victorian Opera hits another bullseye with the tale of the apple and the arrow.

Variable casting leaves the Hong Kong Ring only partially forged.

A masterclass in baroque vocal pyrotechnics from the best.

Ruby shines intermittently in this tribute to Frasi’s London.

Handel’s flop is a winner in Pinchgut Opera’s hands.

A Georgian mezzo brings plenty of spice to bread and butter rep.

Opera Australia has announced it will stage West Side Story as its 2019 HOSH – though AD Lyndon Terracini isn’t interested in the move-to-musical argument.

11 young singers will compete to secure their place in the final, where they’ll get a chance to take home the Marianne Mathy Scholarship.

Dalibor Jenis' hunchbacked jester isn't one to miss.

A fully-staged version of Rossini’s William Tell hasn’t been seen in these parts for over 140 years. But, as director Rodula Gaitanou says, so much of this work remains just as relevant to us today.

Soon to make her Australian debut in the role of Gilda, the Russian soprano talks about overcoming her scepticism about what is now a calling card role.