Imagine Farinelli meets Freddie Mercury — and you’re sitting close enough to feel the electricity. Maayan Lichtarrives in Australia for his long-awaited debut with a voice so high, so fearless, it feels almost impossible… until you hear it live. Joined by the brilliant Neal Peres da Costa leading a hand-picked Baroque ensemble, Licht detonates a sequence of arias that are pure theatre: jealousy and swagger, seduction and heartbreak, prayer-like stillness and hurricane-force virtuosity.

The programme is a greatest-hits thrill ride through Baroque opera’s most intoxicating scenes — from Porpora’s Ifigenia in Aulide (“Nel già bramoso petto” / “Allontanata agnella”) to Handel at his most dramatic (“Un pensiero nemico di pace” from Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, and the famous “Da tempeste il legno infranto” from Giulio Cesare).