The work is the brainchild of baritone Joshua Hopkins whose sister was murdered in 2015.

In a welcome return, The Sleeping Beauty has re-awakened, and Victorian Opera’s long-awaited 2021 season has finally begun.

Carmen Giannattasio makes an impressive Opera Australia debut in John Bell’s dramatic production.

Lise Lindstrom will play Brünnhilde in the first two cycles, while Australians will make role debuts as Brünnhilde and Wotan.

Freeze Frame Opera presents an operatic Play School and has a whale of a time.

Find out what's on stage – and streaming online – in January & February from Limelight editors Jo Litson, Angus McPherson and Clive Paget.

A splendid life and times of an Australian theatrical design icon.

Ahead of his performance as Bluebeard for Opera Australia, the bass tells Limelight about the challenges of the role, singing in Hungarian, and his casting as Wotan in the upcoming Ring Cycle.

The company has set aside 2,000 tickets to John Bell’s monumental Tosca for people who have not previously purchased tickets for an Opera Australia performance.

Insisting he has “no unhappiness with Opera Australia”, Jeffes says the “extraordinarily difficult decision” to resign as CEO is very much “a personal decision”.

Danish Cleopatra is a curiosity if a long-winded one.

Lively Bostonian band recreates Sun King’s watersports and more.