• 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…
    Medea

    Palace Opera & Ballet: Medea

    Palace Central Cinema Level 3 Central Park Mall, 28 Broadway, Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    New Production! Passion, revenge and human frailty. Join us for the first ever performance of Cherubini's masterpiece at Naples' San Carlo Theatre - the world's oldest continuously active opera venue - with celebrated soprano Sondra Radvanovsky singing her acclaimed interpretation of the tour-de-force title role, which she has performed the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric…
    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…
    Medea

    Palace Opera & Ballet: Medea

    Palace Central Cinema Level 3 Central Park Mall, 28 Broadway, Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    New Production! Passion, revenge and human frailty. Join us for the first ever performance of Cherubini's masterpiece at Naples' San Carlo Theatre - the world's oldest continuously active opera venue - with celebrated soprano Sondra Radvanovsky singing her acclaimed interpretation of the tour-de-force title role, which she has performed the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric…

    Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: The Arcadians

    Queenscliff Town Hall 50 Learmonth St, Queenscliff, 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…
    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…
    Medea

    Palace Opera & Ballet: Medea

    Palace Central Cinema Level 3 Central Park Mall, 28 Broadway, Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    New Production! Passion, revenge and human frailty. Join us for the first ever performance of Cherubini's masterpiece at Naples' San Carlo Theatre - the world's oldest continuously active opera venue - with celebrated soprano Sondra Radvanovsky singing her acclaimed interpretation of the tour-de-force title role, which she has performed the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric…
    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…