• Editor's Choice Turandot

    Opera Australia: Turandot

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    International director and choreographer Ann Yee has been recruited to stage a new production of Puccini’s Turandot in a way that is sensitive to issues of race and gender by focusing on the implacable princess’s courage, her ancestor’s trauma and the sacrificial love of another woman. Rebecca Nash, fresh from…
    Editor's Choice La Traviata

    West Australian Opera: La traviata

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    Verdi’s iconic tale of doomed love returns to Perth. The production, directed by Sarah Giles, one of Australia’s most thoughtful theatremakers, uses a lightly updated setting to delve deeply into the opera’s emotional heart. Lochlan Brown conducts the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and WASO Chorus, with Jessica Blunt as consumptive…
    Editor's Choice Eugene Onegin

    Opera Australia: Eugene Onegin

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Kaspar Holten’s cerebral yet impassioned Covent Garden staging of Tchaikovsky’s classic cleverly uses the protagonists’ younger selves to remind them of the road not taken. Australian soprano Lauren Fagan, who has been earning rave notices internationally, makes a welcome return as Tatyana, the young woman whose emotions are awakened by…
    Medea

    Palace Opera & Ballet: Medea

    Palace Central Cinema Level 3 Central Park Mall, 28 Broadway, Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    New Production! Passion, revenge and human frailty. Join us for the first ever performance of Cherubini's masterpiece at Naples' San Carlo Theatre - the world's oldest continuously active opera venue - with celebrated soprano Sondra Radvanovsky singing her acclaimed interpretation of the tour-de-force title role, which she has performed the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric…
    Editor's Choice Madama Butterfly

    Opera Australia: Madama Butterfly

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Moffatt Oxenbould’s much-loved staging of Puccini’s classic was officially retired by Opera Australia in 2017. Now, it’s making a comeback, revived here by Matthew Barclay. “It’s cleverly conceived by Oxenbould and his design team as an exotic, seductive world as seen through Pinkerton’s eyes,” wrote Jo Litson for Limelight. OA’s…
    Editor's Choice La Traviata

    West Australian Opera: La traviata

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    Verdi’s iconic tale of doomed love returns to Perth. The production, directed by Sarah Giles, one of Australia’s most thoughtful theatremakers, uses a lightly updated setting to delve deeply into the opera’s emotional heart. Lochlan Brown conducts the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and WASO Chorus, with Jessica Blunt as consumptive…
    Editor's Choice Eugene Onegin

    Opera Australia: Eugene Onegin

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Kaspar Holten’s cerebral yet impassioned Covent Garden staging of Tchaikovsky’s classic cleverly uses the protagonists’ younger selves to remind them of the road not taken. Australian soprano Lauren Fagan, who has been earning rave notices internationally, makes a welcome return as Tatyana, the young woman whose emotions are awakened by…

    Operantics: Opera Double Bill: Mozart’s “The Impressario” and Salieri’s “Prima la musica, e poi le parole”

    Eternity Playhouse 39 Burton Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    Operantics presents a sparkling double bill of Mozart's “The Impresario” and Salieri’s “Prima la musica, e poi le parole”. Written for the same Viennese court occasion, these sharp, fast-paced comedies turn opera back on itself, skewering artistic egos, rivalries, and the eternal tug-of-war between music and text. Full of vocal…
    Opera at the Movies

    Freeze Frame Opera: Opera at the Movies

    Sun Pictures 8 Carnarvon St, Broome, WA, Australia
    OPERA AT THE MOVIES features the best bits of opera from movie soundtracks including The Shawshank Redemption, Pretty Woman, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Untouchables, Gallipoli and more.  Music includes Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner, Die Walkure), Largo al factotum (Rossini, The Barber of Seville), Habanera (Bizet, Carmen), Lakme…
    The Pirates of Penzance

    Emma Knights: Pirates of Penzance

    Balaklava Town Hall 8 Wallace St, Balaklava, SA, Australia
    ARGH!! The Pirate King is back again! This hilarious adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic operetta is staged in one hour, with an amazing local cast featuring 8 of South Australia’s best local performers with live piano accompaniment. Come on this riotous journey across all types of venues and see…
    Editor's Choice Turandot

    Opera Australia: Turandot

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    International director and choreographer Ann Yee has been recruited to stage a new production of Puccini’s Turandot in a way that is sensitive to issues of race and gender by focusing on the implacable princess’s courage, her ancestor’s trauma and the sacrificial love of another woman. Rebecca Nash, fresh from…
    Editor's Choice Handa Opera On Sydney Harbour – The Phantom of the Opera

    Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour: The Phantom of the Opera

    Mrs Macquaries Point Sydney, NSW, Australia
    On its 40th anniversary, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster musical returns to Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. When it premiered there in 2022, it was the first fully-staged outdoor production anywhere in the world – which excited the composer enough to attend the opening. And what a dazzling night it was! Directed…