The late director’s Cio-Cio San of choice remembers a remarkable collaboration. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
There are two Opera Australia DVDs of Madama Butterfly and, apart from the music and some of the performers, you could be watching two different operas. For Moffatt Oxenbould’s production – still going strong after 18 years – designers Peter England and Russell Cohen used Kabuki theatre as their inspiration with ninja-clad servants handing out props; sliding screens and a surrounding moat to represent the divide between Japanese and American culture. Cio-Cio-San, also sung by Japanese soprano Hiromi Omura, was dressed in a kimono, looking the true geisha. For the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour production, newly released on DVD, director Àlex Ollé from the groundbreaking Spanish theatre group La Fura Dels Baus takes an edgier and more political approach to this tragic love story set amid a clash of cultures. Here we are in the present day and the passionate, unscrupulous Pinkerton is a shiny-suited salesman intent on building a housing development in Nagasaki. Butterfly sports a full body tattoo, denim shorts and a Stars and Stripes T-shirt. For the first act the clever set is a grove of bamboo atop a grassy knoll. For the second act everything is different. No more nature – it’s all building sites,…
McVicar's masterly Gounod pits devilish theatricals against Second Empire morals.
Victorian Opera’s 2015 flagship production of Wagner’s early masterpiece hoists sail. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Modern Australian morality tale gets a handsome musical makeover. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Left Bauer and The Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus’ reduced scale production still maintains the drama. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Limelight Editor Clive Paget heads backstage to meet American superstar tenor Michael Fabiano.
The highly acclaimed Countertenor will headline the inaugural year of the early music festival. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The St Louis Symphony, led by SSO’s chief conductor wins Best Orchestral Performance. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The Sydney-born heldentenor will make his stage debut in the role in 2016. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
New Wagner production will boast three dimensional sets as well as characters. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Sydney mezzo-soprano wins a place on prestigious Jette Parker Young Artists Programme. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Perth conductor and Melbourne soprano among 99 recipients in the latest round of funding. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
