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Are You Lonesome Tonight

Opera Queensland: Are You Lonesome Tonight

Darwin Ski Club 20 Conacher St,, Fannie Bay, NT, Australia
A foot-stomping, heart-stirring performance that bridges two musical worlds Are You Lonesome Tonight is a unique celebration of country music and opera, featuring arias and songs by Bizet, Verdi, Slim Dusty, Troy Cassar-Daley and Dolly Parton. Young Australian singers Gabrielle Diaz, Marcus Corowa and Jonathan Hickey perform with soaring harmonies,…
Editor's Choice Abduction

Victorian Opera: Abduction

Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
With a brand-new English-language script, director Constantine Costi attempts to take the sex-trafficking sting out of Mozart’s early, fizzy opera The Abduction from the Seraglio. In Costi’s reimagining, far from being kidnapped, Konstanze and Blonde slip away from their nice-but-dim boyfriends Belmonte and Pedrillo to enjoy the pleasures on offer at…
Editor's Choice The Marriage of Figaro

Opera Australia: The Marriage of Figaro

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
David McVicar’s classy production shifts opera’s famous comedy of manners back a century from Mozart’s time, with thoughtful direction, lavish sets and the prettiest of frocks. A tale of savvy servants outwitting their amorous masters, it features a string of greatest hits from Cherubino’s Voi che sapete to Figaro’s Non più andrai. Canadian…
Editor's Choice Abduction

Victorian Opera: Abduction

Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
With a brand-new English-language script, director Constantine Costi attempts to take the sex-trafficking sting out of Mozart’s early, fizzy opera The Abduction from the Seraglio. In Costi’s reimagining, far from being kidnapped, Konstanze and Blonde slip away from their nice-but-dim boyfriends Belmonte and Pedrillo to enjoy the pleasures on offer at…
Editor's Choice Carmen

Opera Australia: Carmen

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks helms a new production of Bizet’s classic that aims to be “a Carmen for our time”, asking “urgent questions about opera’s iconic femme fatale”. Given her insightful semi-staged take on Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves last year, she might just do it. An intriguing…
Editor's Choice The Marriage of Figaro

Opera Australia: The Marriage of Figaro

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
David McVicar’s classy production shifts opera’s famous comedy of manners back a century from Mozart’s time, with thoughtful direction, lavish sets and the prettiest of frocks. A tale of savvy servants outwitting their amorous masters, it features a string of greatest hits from Cherubino’s Voi che sapete to Figaro’s Non più andrai. Canadian…
Editor's Choice The Marriage of Figaro

Opera Australia: The Marriage of Figaro

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
David McVicar’s classy production shifts opera’s famous comedy of manners back a century from Mozart’s time, with thoughtful direction, lavish sets and the prettiest of frocks. A tale of savvy servants outwitting their amorous masters, it features a string of greatest hits from Cherubino’s Voi che sapete to Figaro’s Non più andrai. Canadian…

Springboard Opera: The Domestic Sublime

Winning Appliances Showroom Barry Parade, Fortitude Valley, Qld, Australia
Explore the evolving rituals of domestic life through the intimate perspectives of four singers in Springboard Opera's, The Domestic Sublime. Part of the Queensland Art Song Festival, this collaboration with Riverbend Ensemble and emerging Director Madeleine Stephens, will take you on an immersive journey through time from the 1850s to…
Editor's Choice Carmen

Opera Australia: Carmen

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks helms a new production of Bizet’s classic that aims to be “a Carmen for our time”, asking “urgent questions about opera’s iconic femme fatale”. Given her insightful semi-staged take on Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves last year, she might just do it. An intriguing…
Puccini’s La Bohème

Opera Australia: Puccini’s La Bohème

Albany Entertainment Centre 2 Toll Pl,, Albany, WA, Australia
A poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher walk into a bar to celebrate a sudden windfall in a lean winter. It’s Christmas Eve, and the poet has just felt the first pangs of great love. When a seamstress knocks on his door searching for candlelight, the pair fall…
Der Rosenkavalier

National Opera: Der Rosenkavalier

The Street Theatre 15 Childers St, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Join National Opera this August 2025 for a fast-paced, thoughtfully condensed version of Richard Strauss’s beloved opera, Der Rosenkavalier. Presented in under 90 minutes, this adaptation offers audiences a fresh way to experience the charm, emotional nuance, and elegance of one of Strauss’s most enduring works. At the heart of Der Rosenkavalier lies a…
Editor's Choice La Bohème

Opera Australia: La Bohème

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Gale Edwards’ tried and trusted production of Puccini’s classic returns to Sydney. Ditching Paris for the seedy world of 1930s Berlin cabarets doesn’t make perfect sense, but it looks good and has stayed the course thanks to a series of well-cast revivals over the years. For this latest outing, Australian…

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