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Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

Lyric Opera of Melbourne: Song from the Uproar – The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Melbourne’s multi-award-winning Lyric Opera returns to fortyfivedownstairs to present the Australian premiere of this “dazzlingly original score”. First staged at The Kitchen in New York, it has been hailed as a masterpiece of modern opera, drawing influences from baroque to minimalism to indie rock. Isabelle Eberhardt’s journals were a rich…
Editor's Choice Songs from the Uproar – The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

Lyric Opera of Melbourne: Songs from the Uproar – The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Melbourne’s intrepid Lyric Opera presents the Australian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar. Set to a libretto by Royce Vavrek, the chamber opera tells the story of Isabelle Eberhardt, a Swiss-Algerian explorer, writer and mystic. Born in 1877, Eberhardt travelled to North Africa where she lived an adventurous, defiant…
Editor's Choice Il trovatore

West Australian Opera: Il trovatore

His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
Elke Neidhardt’s classic staging of Verdi’s opera comes to Perth. The plot – involving sibling rivalry, mixed-up babies and vengeful mothers – may have more twists and turns than a gypsy’s fandango, but it boasts a back-to-back run of opera’s greatest hits, from the Anvil Chorus to the tenor’s heroic Di quella pira. Asher…
Editor's Choice Roméo et Juliette

State Opera South Australia: Roméo et Juliette

Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
Gounod’s operatic take on Shakespeare’s tale gets a new staging in this co-production by SOSA, West Australian Opera and Irish National Opera. The French composer sticks pretty close to the play with a sparkling score that includes Juliette’s famous waltz song, Ah! Je veux vivre, four love duets and a…

Melbourne Opera: 101st Herald Sun Aria

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Founded in 1924, the Aria is proudly the oldest and most prestigious competition in Australia for emerging classical singers. Join compère Mairi Nicolson from ABC Classic FM, guest artists from Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School, and of course the finalists for a memorable afternoon of music making.
Editor's Choice Roméo et Juliette

State Opera South Australia: Roméo et Juliette

Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
Gounod’s operatic take on Shakespeare’s tale gets a new staging in this co-production by SOSA, West Australian Opera and Irish National Opera. The French composer sticks pretty close to the play with a sparkling score that includes Juliette’s famous waltz song, Ah! Je veux vivre, four love duets and a…
Editor's Choice Roméo et Juliette

State Opera South Australia: Roméo et Juliette

Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
Gounod’s operatic take on Shakespeare’s tale gets a new staging in this co-production by SOSA, West Australian Opera and Irish National Opera. The French composer sticks pretty close to the play with a sparkling score that includes Juliette’s famous waltz song, Ah! Je veux vivre, four love duets and a…
Editor's Choice Roméo et Juliette

State Opera South Australia: Roméo et Juliette

Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
Gounod’s operatic take on Shakespeare’s tale gets a new staging in this co-production by SOSA, West Australian Opera and Irish National Opera. The French composer sticks pretty close to the play with a sparkling score that includes Juliette’s famous waltz song, Ah! Je veux vivre, four love duets and a…
Editor's Choice Roméo et Juliette

State Opera South Australia: Roméo et Juliette

Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
Gounod’s operatic take on Shakespeare’s tale gets a new staging in this co-production by SOSA, West Australian Opera and Irish National Opera. The French composer sticks pretty close to the play with a sparkling score that includes Juliette’s famous waltz song, Ah! Je veux vivre, four love duets and a…
Cosi fan tutte

Melbourne Opera: Così fan tutte

Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Melbourne Opera invites you to join us this spring at the Athenaeum Two for a fresh and intimate new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Featuring the rising stars of the 2025 Richard Divall Program, together with orchestra and chorus, this witty and heartfelt comedy explores love, temptation, and disguise…
Cosi fan tutte

Melbourne Opera: Così fan tutte

Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Melbourne Opera invites you to join us this spring at the Athenaeum Two for a fresh and intimate new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Featuring the rising stars of the 2025 Richard Divall Program, together with orchestra and chorus, this witty and heartfelt comedy explores love, temptation, and disguise…

The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of WA: The Mikado

Dolphin Theatre 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, Australia
G&S WA is proud to present one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular works, the much-loved The Mikado. Set at the “Japanese Native Village” Exhibition in the fashionable London suburb of Knightsbridge in 1885, this vibrant and colourful new staging will be directed by Paul Treasure (The Gondoliers, HMS Pinafore)…

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