• Editor's Choice

    Opera Australia: BMW Opera for All

    Federation Square Swanston St & Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    BMW Opera for All returns to Melbourne’s Federation Square for the fourth year running. The free, open-air concert, which showcases some of opera’s most popular arias, features soprano Julie Lea Goodwin, mezzo-soprano Emily Edmonds, tenor Asher Reichman and baritone Stephen Marsh accompanied by 20 musicians from Orchestra Victoria under the…
    Editor's Choice La Traviata

    West Australian Opera: La traviata

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    Verdi’s iconic tale of doomed love returns to Perth. The production, directed by Sarah Giles, one of Australia’s most thoughtful theatremakers, uses a lightly updated setting to delve deeply into the opera’s emotional heart. Lochlan Brown conducts the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and WASO Chorus, with Jessica Blunt as consumptive…
    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…
    The Arcadians

    Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: The Arcadians

    the round studio 397 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading, Victoria, Australia
    A London restaurateur crash lands his plane in Arcadia and is transformed from a wicked man to a guileless youth by the innocent rural idyll of the locals. Horrified by the idea of city life, the magical Arcadians travel to London to convert the miserable city-dwellers. Premiering in 1909, The…
    The Arcadians

    Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: The Arcadians

    the round studio 397 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading, Victoria, Australia
    A London restaurateur crash lands his plane in Arcadia and is transformed from a wicked man to a guileless youth by the innocent rural idyll of the locals. Horrified by the idea of city life, the magical Arcadians travel to London to convert the miserable city-dwellers. Premiering in 1909, The…

    : Fremantle Chamber Orchestra & Kashtany Duo & Ukrainian Roztiazhka Cossack Dancers

    Government House Ballroom, 13 St George’s Tce, Perth Government House Ballroom, 13 St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
    Locatelli’s Il pianto d’Arianna (the weeping of Ariadne) uses the fragment of a lost Monteverdi opera telling of Theseus’s abandonment of Ariadne. A solo violin sobs on Ariadne’s behalf. The final Largo, strewn with silences, eventually twists into the hopeful smile of a major key. Mozart and Beethoven contemporary Leopold…
    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 La Traviata

    West Australian Opera: La traviata

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    Verdi’s iconic tale of doomed love returns to Perth. The production, directed by Sarah Giles, one of Australia’s most thoughtful theatremakers, uses a lightly updated setting to delve deeply into the opera’s emotional heart. Lochlan Brown conducts the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and WASO Chorus, with Jessica Blunt as consumptive…
    Editor's Choice Eugene Onegin

    Opera Australia: Eugene Onegin

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Kaspar Holten’s cerebral yet impassioned Covent Garden staging of Tchaikovsky’s classic cleverly uses the protagonists’ younger selves to remind them of the road not taken. Australian soprano Lauren Fagan, who has been earning rave notices internationally, makes a welcome return as Tatyana, the young woman whose emotions are awakened by…
    The Pirates of Penzance

    Emma Knights: Pirates of Penzance

    Handlebar HomeBase 10 Andrew St, Adelaide, South Australia
    ARGH!! The Pirate King is back again! This hilarious adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic operetta is staged in one hour, with an amazing local cast featuring 8 of South Australia’s best local performers with live piano accompaniment. Come on this riotous journey across all types of venues and see…
    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 La Traviata

    West Australian Opera: La traviata

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    Verdi’s iconic tale of doomed love returns to Perth. The production, directed by Sarah Giles, one of Australia’s most thoughtful theatremakers, uses a lightly updated setting to delve deeply into the opera’s emotional heart. Lochlan Brown conducts the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and WASO Chorus, with Jessica Blunt as consumptive…