• Young Artist Showcase – Viva La Voce

    Opera Queensland: Young Artist Showcase – Viva La Voce

    Opera Queensland Studio South Bank, QLD, Australia
    For more than 35 years, the Opera Queensland Young Artist Program has nurtured the next generation of Australian opera talent, providing unparalleled opportunities to perform at the highest standards both locally and on the world stage. Joined by pianist Sarka Budinska-Boxall, this beautifully diverse program presents solo and ensemble operatic…

    Lumens Chamber Choir: Dido and Aeneas

    St Peters Lutheran College Performing Arts Centre 66 Harts Road, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia
    Join us in The Dron Auditorium for an immersive modern reimagining of Henry Purcell’s iconic opera, Dido and Aeneas. This production is directed by opera singer, writer and director, Tarita Botsman, and Brisbane based conductor, Kathryn Morton, and will showcase the dynamic nature of our Lumen’s Chamber Choir as they…
    Editor's Choice Brisbane Cheryomushki

    Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University: Brisbane Cheryomushki

    Queensland Conservatorium 140 Grey St, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    Shostakovich used to sheepishly disown his one and only operetta, but it turns out to be a feast of good tunes, biting irony and occasional high camp. When a Moscow housing shortage brings a disparate group of friends together in a model Soviet apartment block, their greatest hurdle turns out…
    Editor's Choice Brisbane Cheryomushki

    Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University: Brisbane Cheryomushki

    Queensland Conservatorium 140 Grey St, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    Shostakovich used to sheepishly disown his one and only operetta, but it turns out to be a feast of good tunes, biting irony and occasional high camp. When a Moscow housing shortage brings a disparate group of friends together in a model Soviet apartment block, their greatest hurdle turns out…
    Editor's Choice Brisbane Cheryomushki

    Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University: Brisbane Cheryomushki

    Queensland Conservatorium 140 Grey St, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    Shostakovich used to sheepishly disown his one and only operetta, but it turns out to be a feast of good tunes, biting irony and occasional high camp. When a Moscow housing shortage brings a disparate group of friends together in a model Soviet apartment block, their greatest hurdle turns out…
    Editor's Choice The Turn of the Screw

    Victorian Opera: The Turn of the Screw

    Palais Theatre 3388 Huon Highway, Franklin, TAS
    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…
  • Editor's Choice The Turn of the Screw

    Victorian Opera: The Turn of the Screw

    Palais Theatre 3388 Huon Highway, Franklin, TAS
    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 Spare Room

    Victorian Opera: The Spare Room

    Arts Centre Melbourne - Playhouse
    Adapted from Helen Garner’s acclaimed novel, The Spare Room tells the story of Helen who lovingly prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola. Nicola is coming to Melbourne for three weeks to receive treatment she believes will cure her cancer. From the moment Nicola staggers off the plane, Helen…

    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…
    The Spare Room

    Victorian Opera: The Spare Room

    Arts Centre Melbourne - Playhouse
    Adapted from Helen Garner’s acclaimed novel, The Spare Room tells the story of Helen who lovingly prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola. Nicola is coming to Melbourne for three weeks to receive treatment she believes will cure her cancer. From the moment Nicola staggers off the plane, Helen…

    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…

    Voxalis Opera: Pelléas and Mélisande

    Saint Andrew's Uniting Church 299 Ann St, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Step into a world of shadows, secrets, and forbidden desires with Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. Set in a mysterious, dreamlike kingdom, this opera presents an intricate portrait of human fragility and unspoken truths. When Prince Golaud discovers the enigmatic Mélisande lost in the forest, her presence begins to unravel the…