• Editor's Choice Hansel & Gretel

    Opera Australia: Hansel & Gretel

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Engelbert Humperdinck’s timeless fairytale opera is a setting of the Brothers Grimm’s story of child neglect, sugar addiction and cannibalism (just kidding!). It’s also a bagful of good tunes. Elijah Moshinsky’s classic production is presented here in a lively English translation. Margaret Plummer and Stacey Alleaume play the resourceful kids sent…
    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 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 Hansel & Gretel

    Opera Australia: Hansel & Gretel

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Engelbert Humperdinck’s timeless fairytale opera is a setting of the Brothers Grimm’s story of child neglect, sugar addiction and cannibalism (just kidding!). It’s also a bagful of good tunes. Elijah Moshinsky’s classic production is presented here in a lively English translation. Margaret Plummer and Stacey Alleaume play the resourceful kids sent…
    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 The Pirates of Penzance

    Victorian Opera: The Pirates of Penzance

    Palais Theatre 3388 Huon Highway, Franklin, TAS
    Stuart Maunder directs this rib-tickling production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s classic comedy in which an accidental pirate apprentice gets caught out by having been born on 29 February in a leap year. Nicholas Jones is the ever-dutiful Frederic, with Nina Korbe as his warbling beloved Mabel, Ben Mingay as the swashbuckling…
    Editor's Choice The Pirates of Penzance

    Victorian Opera: The Pirates of Penzance

    Palais Theatre 3388 Huon Highway, Franklin, TAS
    Stuart Maunder directs this rib-tickling production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s classic comedy in which an accidental pirate apprentice gets caught out by having been born on 29 February in a leap year. Nicholas Jones is the ever-dutiful Frederic, with Nina Korbe as his warbling beloved Mabel, Ben Mingay as the swashbuckling…
    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 The Pirates of Penzance

    Victorian Opera: The Pirates of Penzance

    Palais Theatre 3388 Huon Highway, Franklin, TAS
    Stuart Maunder directs this rib-tickling production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s classic comedy in which an accidental pirate apprentice gets caught out by having been born on 29 February in a leap year. Nicholas Jones is the ever-dutiful Frederic, with Nina Korbe as his warbling beloved Mabel, Ben Mingay as the swashbuckling…
    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 Hansel & Gretel

    Opera Australia: Hansel & Gretel

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Engelbert Humperdinck’s timeless fairytale opera is a setting of the Brothers Grimm’s story of child neglect, sugar addiction and cannibalism (just kidding!). It’s also a bagful of good tunes. Elijah Moshinsky’s classic production is presented here in a lively English translation. Margaret Plummer and Stacey Alleaume play the resourceful kids sent…
    Editor's Choice The Pirates of Penzance

    Victorian Opera: The Pirates of Penzance

    Palais Theatre 3388 Huon Highway, Franklin, TAS
    Stuart Maunder directs this rib-tickling production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s classic comedy in which an accidental pirate apprentice gets caught out by having been born on 29 February in a leap year. Nicholas Jones is the ever-dutiful Frederic, with Nina Korbe as his warbling beloved Mabel, Ben Mingay as the swashbuckling…