For the first time in over 40 years, the national company comes to the nation’s capital to celebrate Canberra Theatre Centre’s 60th anniversary. Tahu Matheson conducts the OA Orchestra and Chorus in a gala concert directed by OA Young Artist Claudia Osborne. The soloists are sopranos Jennifer Black and Canberra’s own Lorina Gore, mezzo-soprano Sian Sharp, tenor Diego Torre, baritone Luke Gabbedy and bass David Parkin. The program opens in grand style with the Overture to Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and includes The Pearl Fishers’ Duet, the Flower Duet from Lakmé and the Anvil Chorus from Il trovatore.

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For the first time in 42 years, the full forces of the Opera Australia Orchestra, Chorus and soloists are coming to Canberra Theatre Centre for a one-night-only Gala Concert.

Conductor Tahu Matheson will lead over 80 artists, including an all-star cast of some of Australia’s most in-demand singers including Lorina Gore, Diego Torre, Jennifer Black, Sian Sharp, Luke Gabbedy and David Parkin.

Experience grand choruses, soaring orchestral pieces and some of opera’s most beloved arias, as glorious acoustic sound fills the theatre. The eclectic program will take you on a journey through some of opera’s most moving moments, from composers including Mozart, Puccini, Bizet, Verdi and Wagner.

This is a rare opportunity to hear the country’s leading opera artists together, to perform some of the most dramatic music ever written, as it was meant to be heard.