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    • Editor's Choice The Spare Room

    Victorian Opera: The Spare Room

    Arts Centre Melbourne - Playhouse
    In composer Jane Hammond and librettist Therèsa Borg’s adaptation of Helen Garner’s acclaimed novel, Helen has offered her spare room to her friend Nicola, who is coming to Melbourne for an unconventional treatment that she believes will cure her cancer. Over three weeks, Helen becomes nurse, judge and guardian angel…
    opera’s bad girl: anna bishop, the world’s first daringly defiant diva

    Canta Viva: Opera’s bad girl: Anna Bishop, the world’s first daringly defiant diva

    MC Showroom Level 1, 48 Clifton Street, Prahran, VIC, Australia
    Scandal, seduction, shipwreck and song. Original diva Anna Bishop, a daring contemporary of Queen Victoria, shattered expectations and redefined independence when she left her famous composer husband to forge her own artistic path. Bravely defying social norms of the time, and forced to leave her beloved children behind, she toured…
    Editor's Choice The Spare Room

    Victorian Opera: The Spare Room

    Arts Centre Melbourne - Playhouse
    In composer Jane Hammond and librettist Therèsa Borg’s adaptation of Helen Garner’s acclaimed novel, Helen has offered her spare room to her friend Nicola, who is coming to Melbourne for an unconventional treatment that she believes will cure her cancer. Over three weeks, Helen becomes nurse, judge and guardian angel…
    Editor's Choice The Spare Room

    Victorian Opera: The Spare Room

    Arts Centre Melbourne - Playhouse
    In composer Jane Hammond and librettist Therèsa Borg’s adaptation of Helen Garner’s acclaimed novel, Helen has offered her spare room to her friend Nicola, who is coming to Melbourne for an unconventional treatment that she believes will cure her cancer. Over three weeks, Helen becomes nurse, judge and guardian angel…
    Opera Lecture Series – Aspects of Opera

    Opera Bites: Opera Lecture Series – Aspects of Opera

    City of Sydney Creative Studios 119 Bathurst Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Since 2003, Opera Bites Co-Founder Murray Dahm has delivered accessible, friendly and informative lectures, drawing on its history, culture and music. Enjoy exploring a variety of areas of operatic history from composers and voice types through to genres and quirky bits of opera trivia. Aspects of Opera: From the many…
    Editor's Choice Così Fan Tutte

    Melbourne Opera: Così Fan Tutte

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Melbourne Opera remounts its 2025 production of Mozart’s bittersweet comedy for two performances only. Director Suzanne Chaundy reimagines Lorenzo Da Ponte’s 1790 Italian setting as a trip to 1960s Melbourne. Don Alfonso, here a cynical local bar and pizzeria owner on Lygon Street, challenges two young soldiers just back from…
    Editor's Choice Roméo et Juliette

    Western Australia Opera: Roméo et Juliette

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth 827-905 Hay St, Karboordup, WA, Australia
    WA Opera presents a co-production with State Opera South Australia and Irish National Opera of Gounod’s take on Shakespeare. The opera sticks pretty closely to the play, with a masked ball, duels and a lengthy balcony scene, not to mention a lilting coloratura waltz song for Juliette. Known for her psychologically driven…
    Editor's Choice

    Opera Australia: The Wagner Gala

    Ian Potter State Theatre
    To mark the reopening of the Ian Potter State Theatre, Opera Australia is mounting a Wagner night – an opportunity to wallow in bleeding chunks quarried from the German master’s iconic works. Michael Güttler leads Orchestra Victoria and a trio of world-class talent. British soprano Catherine Foster has been a Bayreuth…
    Editor's Choice Roméo et Juliette

    Western Australia Opera: Roméo et Juliette

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth 827-905 Hay St, Karboordup, WA, Australia
    WA Opera presents a co-production with State Opera South Australia and Irish National Opera of Gounod’s take on Shakespeare. The opera sticks pretty closely to the play, with a masked ball, duels and a lengthy balcony scene, not to mention a lilting coloratura waltz song for Juliette. Known for her psychologically driven…
    Editor's Choice Carmen

    State Opera South Australia: Carmen

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Rising star director Laura Hansford reimagines Bizet’s classic by applying “maximalist surrealism” to the original setting of 1825 Seville. It’s the latest attempt to rethink the problematic femme fatale by asking contemporary questions about autonomy, obsession and the cost of living freely. Dane Lam leads the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra through…

    The Opera Room: Verdi in the City

    Castlereagh Boutique Hotel 169 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The Opera Room and Castlereagh Boutique Hotel proudly present Verdi in the City, a special live opera performance in Sydney featuring internationally acclaimed tenor Diego Torre. High stakes, thwarted love, passion and politics come together in highlights from two of Giuseppe Verdi’s greatest operas, Don Carlo and Il Trovatore. Presented…
    Editor's Choice Così Fan Tutte

    Melbourne Opera: Così Fan Tutte

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Melbourne Opera remounts its 2025 production of Mozart’s bittersweet comedy for two performances only. Director Suzanne Chaundy reimagines Lorenzo Da Ponte’s 1790 Italian setting as a trip to 1960s Melbourne. Don Alfonso, here a cynical local bar and pizzeria owner on Lygon Street, challenges two young soldiers just back from…