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Opera
Live Review

Review: Pagliacci (The Cooperative)

Never mind the shoestring budget, this production provides a much-needed platform for some of our best emerging voices.

August 5, 2023
Classical Music, Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Offenbach: La Périchole (Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Choir Les éléments, Julien Leroy)

Delightfully bonkers Offenbach is more fun than a barrel full of llamas.

August 4, 2023
Film, Opera
features

Ten Opera Films You Need to See

With a new screen version of Bizet's Carmen now in cinemas, here's our pick of the top 10 opera films you might be inspired to catch up with.

July 25, 2023
Opera, Vocal & Choral
news

Finalists in the 2023 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition announced

Two singers from Aotearoa/New Zealand and three from New South Wales are in the running for the prestigious Marianne Mathy Scholarship.

July 24, 2023
Opera
Live Review

Review: The Gilt-Edged Kid/The Dictator (IOpera)

One-act political satires by George Dreyfus and Ernst Krenek delivered in thrilling style with every detail of tone and colour writ large.

July 24, 2023
Classical Music, Opera
features

The Anonymous Composer

After 200 years, Joseph Bologne’s reputation is finally restored.

July 24, 2023
Classical Music, Opera
features

Jonas Kaufmann’s Dolce Vita

Ahead of his performances for Opera Australia, the world’s number one tenor Jonas Kaufmann talks about his highly anticipated role debut and upcoming season.

July 24, 2023
Classical Music, Dance, Opera, Theatre
features

On Stage: the events you need to see in August 2023

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

July 24, 2023
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental, Opera, Orchestral, Vocal & Choral
features

On the Record: August 2023

Danes complete their Prism project, Bychkov delivers a blistering Resurrection, outstanding Beethoven from Ohlsson in the mountains, and Piers Lane goes to town . . . again!

July 24, 2023
Opera
news

International singers win fight for unpaid prize money

Australian soprano Jessica Harper was among international competition entrants who performed for prize money the organisers didn't have.

July 20, 2023
Opera
Live Review

Review: The Tales of Hoffmann (Opera Australia)

Jessica Pratt and Iván Ayón Rivas head a superb cast in Damiano Michieletto’s thrilling production of Offenbach’s last, greatest opera.

July 13, 2023
Classical Music, Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Spontini: La Vestale (Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset)

Spontini’s greatest hit gets the revelatory back-to-basics treatment.

July 10, 2023
Opera
news

Australian soprano Margaret Nisbett has died

A leading lady at Sadler's Wells for eight years, Margaret Nisbett was one of Australia's best-known singers in the 1960s and 1970s.

July 6, 2023

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