• Shaumet Music: Wagner: Das Rheingold

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Shaumet Music proudly presents a landmark event: the Australian premiere of Jonathan Dove and Graham Vick’s celebrated chamber adaptation of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold in concert. The opening chapter of Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle unfolds in a world where gods, giants, and the guardians of the Rhine battle over ultimate power: the…
    Editor's Choice Handa Opera On Sydney Harbour – The Phantom of the Opera

    Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour: The Phantom of the Opera

    Mrs Macquaries Point Sydney, NSW, Australia
    On its 40th anniversary, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster musical returns to Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. When it premiered there in 2022, it was the first fully-staged outdoor production anywhere in the world – which excited the composer enough to attend the opening. And what a dazzling night it was! Directed…
    Editor's Choice Handa Opera On Sydney Harbour – The Phantom of the Opera

    Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour: The Phantom of the Opera

    Mrs Macquaries Point Sydney, NSW, Australia
    On its 40th anniversary, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster musical returns to Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. When it premiered there in 2022, it was the first fully-staged outdoor production anywhere in the world – which excited the composer enough to attend the opening. And what a dazzling night it was! Directed…
    Editor's Choice Don Giovanni

    Melbourne Opera: Don Giovanni

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Suzanne Chaundy directs a new production of Don Giovanni, Mozart and Da Ponte’s tale of lust laid low by supernatural forces. Christopher Tonkin headlines as the diabolical rake, with Henry Shaw as his wily servant Leporello and Eleanor Greenwood as Donna Elvira, the woman who can’t quite give him up. Lee…
    Editor's Choice Handa Opera On Sydney Harbour – The Phantom of the Opera

    Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour: The Phantom of the Opera

    Mrs Macquaries Point Sydney, NSW, Australia
    On its 40th anniversary, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster musical returns to Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. When it premiered there in 2022, it was the first fully-staged outdoor production anywhere in the world – which excited the composer enough to attend the opening. And what a dazzling night it was! Directed…
    Editor's Choice Brisbane Bel Canto: La Cenerentola (Cinderella)

    Opera Queensland: Brisbane Bel Canto: La Cenerentola (Cinderella)

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    This year’s celebration of ‘beautiful singing’ replicates last year’s program with two performances at QPAC of La Cenerentola, Rossini’s fizzy take on the classic Cinderella story. Richard Mills conducts Laura Hansford’s staging, which stars Margarita Gritskova as Angelina (Cinderella), Mert Süngü as Don Ramiro (Prince Charming) and Jeremy Kleeman as Dandini. Other…
    Editor's Choice Don Giovanni

    Melbourne Opera: Don Giovanni

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Suzanne Chaundy directs a new production of Don Giovanni, Mozart and Da Ponte’s tale of lust laid low by supernatural forces. Christopher Tonkin headlines as the diabolical rake, with Henry Shaw as his wily servant Leporello and Eleanor Greenwood as Donna Elvira, the woman who can’t quite give him up. Lee…
  • Editor's Choice Brisbane Bel Canto: La Cenerentola (Cinderella)

    Opera Queensland: Brisbane Bel Canto: La Cenerentola (Cinderella)

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    This year’s celebration of ‘beautiful singing’ replicates last year’s program with two performances at QPAC of La Cenerentola, Rossini’s fizzy take on the classic Cinderella story. Richard Mills conducts Laura Hansford’s staging, which stars Margarita Gritskova as Angelina (Cinderella), Mert Süngü as Don Ramiro (Prince Charming) and Jeremy Kleeman as Dandini. Other…
    Editor's Choice Don Giovanni

    Melbourne Opera: Don Giovanni

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Suzanne Chaundy directs a new production of Don Giovanni, Mozart and Da Ponte’s tale of lust laid low by supernatural forces. Christopher Tonkin headlines as the diabolical rake, with Henry Shaw as his wily servant Leporello and Eleanor Greenwood as Donna Elvira, the woman who can’t quite give him up. Lee…

    Opera Bites: Opera in the Pub – Opera Jukebox II

    The Harold 70A Ross Street, Forest Lodge, NSW, Australia
    Opera . . . in a pub? You heard right! Opera Bites brings best-loved opera hits to the relaxed atmosphere of your local pub. Opera Jukebox II - The show where YOU choose the live operatic hits! Opera Jukebox is back with a whole new selection of opera’s favourite melodies.…
    The Savages

    Voxalis Opera: The Savages

    Saint Andrew's Uniting Church 299 Ann St, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    A world shaped by division and violence, by mysticism and constant change. A world that feels both overwhelming and strangely familiar. What if opera and song could hold up a mirror to it? Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations does exactly that. At its heart, the song cycle is a portrait of…
    Editor's Choice CINDERELLA (La Cenerentola)

    State Opera South Australia: CINDERELLA (La Cenerentola)

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
    In a theatrical coup, Neil Armfield heads to Adelaide to direct Rossini’s comedy in which a resourceful young woman outwits her mean-spirited family to win the heart of a prince, without the aid of magic. The production, which promises a retro 1970s twist, stars Anna Dowsley as Angelina (Cinderella) and…