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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…