• Murray Dahm: Opera Lecture Series – The Operas of the Age of Puccini

    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. In the late 19th century, Italian…
    Editor's Choice Requiems

    Opera Australia: Brahms Requiem

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Opera Australia continues its sidestep into choral repertoire with two great 19th-century Requiems. Completed in 1893, Fauré’s lyrical meditation on death is paired with Barber’s iconic Agnus Dei, the composer’s choral arrangement of his famous Adagio for Strings. The OA Chorus will be conducted by Paul Fitzsimon, with Michael Curtain playing the marvellous…

    Murray Dahm: Opera Lecture Series – The Operas of the Age of Puccini

    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. In the late 19th century, Italian…
    Editor's Choice Rusalka

    Opera Queensland: Rusalka

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Following her admired staging of La traviata, Sarah Giles turned her attention to Dvořák’s fairytale opera about a water sprite who barters away the power of speech to follow her heart and enter the world of humans. Soprano Eleanor Lyons takes on the title role. Rosario La Spina plays her fickle…
    Tones & Tides

    Opera in the Country: Tones & Tides

    Russell Island Recreation Hall 1 Alison Crescent, Russell Island, Queensland, Australia
    Islands are places of crossing. Just as ferries bring communities together across the Redlands Coast, music becomes the vessel through which stories are shared. In this concert series, opera leaves the grand theatre and comes to the Redlands. Renowned in Victoria for bringing top level artistry to the tiniest rural…
    Editor's Choice Rusalka

    Opera Queensland: Rusalka

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Following her admired staging of La traviata, Sarah Giles turned her attention to Dvořák’s fairytale opera about a water sprite who barters away the power of speech to follow her heart and enter the world of humans. Soprano Eleanor Lyons takes on the title role. Rosario La Spina plays her fickle…
    Tones & Tides

    Opera in the Country: Tones & Tides

    Dunwich Community Hall 4 Ballow Road, Dunwich, Queensland, Australia
    Islands are places of crossing. Just as ferries bring communities together across the Redlands Coast, music becomes the vessel through which stories are shared. In this concert series, opera leaves the grand theatre and comes to the Redlands. Renowned in Victoria for bringing top level artistry to the tiniest rural…
    Editor's Choice Rusalka

    Opera Queensland: Rusalka

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Following her admired staging of La traviata, Sarah Giles turned her attention to Dvořák’s fairytale opera about a water sprite who barters away the power of speech to follow her heart and enter the world of humans. Soprano Eleanor Lyons takes on the title role. Rosario La Spina plays her fickle…
    Editor's Choice The Coronation of Poppea

    Victorian Opera: The Coronation of Poppea

    Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Monteverdi’s opera, heard here in Elena Kats-Chernin’s jazz-influenced orchestral rearrangement, is one of the masterpieces of the early Baroque. Set in Nero’s Rome, it’s an amoral feast of treachery, sexual shenanigans and unbounded ambition in which Poppea sets out to win a place on the Imperial throne. Sam Strong directs a new production with baritone…
  • Murray Dahm: Opera Lecture Series – The Operas of the Age of Puccini

    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. In the late 19th century, Italian…
    Editor's Choice Rusalka

    Opera Queensland: Rusalka

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Following her admired staging of La traviata, Sarah Giles turned her attention to Dvořák’s fairytale opera about a water sprite who barters away the power of speech to follow her heart and enter the world of humans. Soprano Eleanor Lyons takes on the title role. Rosario La Spina plays her fickle…
    Editor's Choice The Coronation of Poppea

    Victorian Opera: The Coronation of Poppea

    Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Monteverdi’s opera, heard here in Elena Kats-Chernin’s jazz-influenced orchestral rearrangement, is one of the masterpieces of the early Baroque. Set in Nero’s Rome, it’s an amoral feast of treachery, sexual shenanigans and unbounded ambition in which Poppea sets out to win a place on the Imperial throne. Sam Strong directs a new production with baritone…