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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…
Lord Mayor’s City Hall Concert

Brisbane Festival: The Telephone

Brisbane City Hall 64 Adelaide St, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia
Sparkling soprano Katie Stenzel and characterful baritone Jon Maskell are bringing the laughs and the romance alongside virtuoso pianist Alex Raineri. The program begins with highlights of great American opera, with arias by Douglas Moore, Leonard Bernstein, and more, before moving on to the main event: Italian-American composer Gian Carlo…
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…
Turn of the Screw

IOpera: Turn of the Screw

Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Benjamin Britten’s opera, composed in 1954, is a gripping setting of the famous novella by Henry James of strange goings-on in a remote English manor house. There, a young governess has been employed to care for two children—Flora and Miles—but she quickly discovers that nothing is quite as it first…
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 Dead Man Walking

Freeze Frame Opera: Dead Man Walking

Fremantle Prison 1 The Terrace, Fremantle, WA, Australia
Freeze Frame Opera has built its reputation on a determination to introduce new audiences to opera and an imaginative approach to site-specific work. Now, the company turns its attention to a contemporary classic with the West Australian premiere of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about…
Old Maid and the Thief

IOpera: Old Maid and the Thief

Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Gian Carlo Menotti’s wittily satirical and sharp comedy of suburban manners and forbidden desire! Originally written for radio in 1939, this masterful one-act work has since gone on to be one of the most performed of twentieth century operas, full of the kinds of dramatic and musical bravura that made…
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…
Editor's Choice Dead Man Walking

Freeze Frame Opera: Dead Man Walking

Fremantle Prison 1 The Terrace, Fremantle, WA, Australia
Freeze Frame Opera has built its reputation on a determination to introduce new audiences to opera and an imaginative approach to site-specific work. Now, the company turns its attention to a contemporary classic with the West Australian premiere of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about…
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 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…
Old Maid and the Thief

IOpera: Old Maid and the Thief

Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Gian Carlo Menotti’s wittily satirical and sharp comedy of suburban manners and forbidden desire! Originally written for radio in 1939, this masterful one-act work has since gone on to be one of the most performed of twentieth century operas, full of the kinds of dramatic and musical bravura that made…

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