• Editor's Choice The Turn of the Screw

    Victorian Opera: The Turn of the Screw

    Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Benjamin Britten’s operatic ghost story is one of the most effective music theatre works of the 20th century. When a wide-eyed governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two supposedly innocent children, it quickly becomes clear that not everything is as it seems. What was the…
  • Opera Lecture Series – Aspects of Opera

    Opera Bites: Opera Lecture Series – Aspects of Opera

    City of Sydney Creative Studios 119 Bathurst Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Since 2003, Opera Bites Co-Founder Murray Dahm has delivered accessible, friendly and informative lectures, drawing on its history, culture and music. Enjoy exploring a variety of areas of operatic history from composers and voice types through to genres and quirky bits of opera trivia. Aspects of Opera: From the many…
    Editor's Choice

    Australian Baroque: The Six Noongar Seasons

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth 827-905 Hay St, Karboordup, WA, Australia
    This cycle of six concertos explores the changing rhythms of Country through the music of Aaron Wyatt and poems by Gina Williams. Inspired by Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, the work traces the Noongar seasons of the southwest – Birak, Bunuru, Djeran, Makuru, Djilba and Kambarang – as heat gathers, rain…
    Editor's Choice The Turn of the Screw

    Victorian Opera: The Turn of the Screw

    Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Benjamin Britten’s operatic ghost story is one of the most effective music theatre works of the 20th century. When a wide-eyed governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two supposedly innocent children, it quickly becomes clear that not everything is as it seems. What was the…
    The Heroines

    National Opera: The Heroines

    The Street Theatre 15 Childers St, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    National Opera’s Heroines is a bold new project celebrating the power and depth of opera’s most unforgettable women. Drawing on repertoire from across the operatic landscape, the production presents a carefully curated sequence of fully staged scenes that highlight the resilience, defiance, and sacrifice of these iconic characters. From queens…
    The Heroines

    National Opera: The Heroines

    The Street Theatre 15 Childers St, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    National Opera’s Heroines is a bold new project celebrating the power and depth of opera’s most unforgettable women. Drawing on repertoire from across the operatic landscape, the production presents a carefully curated sequence of fully staged scenes that highlight the resilience, defiance, and sacrifice of these iconic characters. From queens…

    Opera Bites: Opera in the Pub – Opera From A Hat

    Keg & Brew 26 Foveaux Street Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Opera . . . in a pub? You heard right! Opera Bites brings best-loved opera hits to the relaxed atmosphere of your local pub. Opera From a Hat: Opera favourites, we've all got them! And this month we're singing yours - drawing each one from a hat so even we…
    Editor's Choice The Spare Room

    Victorian Opera: The Spare Room

    Arts Centre Melbourne - Playhouse
    In composer Jane Hammond and librettist Therèsa Borg’s adaptation of Helen Garner’s acclaimed novel, Helen has offered her spare room to her friend Nicola, who is coming to Melbourne for an unconventional treatment that she believes will cure her cancer. Over three weeks, Helen becomes nurse, judge and guardian angel…
    Opera Lecture Series – Aspects of Opera

    Opera Bites: Opera Lecture Series – Aspects of Opera

    City of Sydney Creative Studios 119 Bathurst Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Since 2003, Opera Bites Co-Founder Murray Dahm has delivered accessible, friendly and informative lectures, drawing on its history, culture and music. Enjoy exploring a variety of areas of operatic history from composers and voice types through to genres and quirky bits of opera trivia. Aspects of Opera: From the many…

    Canta Viva: Opera’s bad girl: Anna Bishop, the world’s first daringly defiant diva

    MC Showroom Level 1, 48 Clifton Street, Prahran, VIC, Australia
    Scandal, seduction, shipwreck and song. Original diva Anna Bishop, a daring contemporary of Queen Victoria, shattered expectations and redefined independence when she left her famous composer husband to forge her own artistic path. Bravely defying social norms of the time, and forced to leave her beloved children behind, she toured…
    Editor's Choice The Spare Room

    Victorian Opera: The Spare Room

    Arts Centre Melbourne - Playhouse
    In composer Jane Hammond and librettist Therèsa Borg’s adaptation of Helen Garner’s acclaimed novel, Helen has offered her spare room to her friend Nicola, who is coming to Melbourne for an unconventional treatment that she believes will cure her cancer. Over three weeks, Helen becomes nurse, judge and guardian angel…

    Canta Viva: Opera’s bad girl: Anna Bishop, the world’s first daringly defiant diva

    MC Showroom Level 1, 48 Clifton Street, Prahran, VIC, Australia
    Scandal, seduction, shipwreck and song. Original diva Anna Bishop, a daring contemporary of Queen Victoria, shattered expectations and redefined independence when she left her famous composer husband to forge her own artistic path. Bravely defying social norms of the time, and forced to leave her beloved children behind, she toured…