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Editor's Choice Boojum!

Victorian Opera: Boojum!

Horticultural Hall 31 Victoria Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith’s 1977 work Boojum! received its premiere at the 1986 Adelaide Festival, directed by Gale Edwards. Sitting somewhere on the fault line between opera and musical theatre, it takes characters from Lewis Carroll’s timeless Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and interweaves them with the Victorian author’s classic nonsense…
Editor's Choice Boojum!

Victorian Opera: Boojum!

Horticultural Hall 31 Victoria Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith’s 1977 work Boojum! received its premiere at the 1986 Adelaide Festival, directed by Gale Edwards. Sitting somewhere on the fault line between opera and musical theatre, it takes characters from Lewis Carroll’s timeless Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and interweaves them with the Victorian author’s classic nonsense…
Editor's Choice Boojum!

Victorian Opera: Boojum!

Horticultural Hall 31 Victoria Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith’s 1977 work Boojum! received its premiere at the 1986 Adelaide Festival, directed by Gale Edwards. Sitting somewhere on the fault line between opera and musical theatre, it takes characters from Lewis Carroll’s timeless Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and interweaves them with the Victorian author’s classic nonsense…

The Opera and Song Collective: Visions of Verdi

Mosman Art Gallery 1 Art Gallery Way, Mosman, NSW, Australia
The Opera and Song Collective invites you into the passionate, conflicted world of Verdi’s late masterpieces. No composer captures sweeping melody, pathos, intrigue, and patriotic fire like Giuseppe Verdi. Under the baton of Simon Kenway, leading Australian singers present narrated, semi-staged excerpts from five of his greatest operas: I Vespri…

Brisbane Music Festival: Figaro

FourthWall Arts Suite 4, 540 Queen St, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia
Revenge, disguise, love, trickery, a wedding … everything you’d find in a modern-day soap opera. In a delightful new reimagining, Bethany Simons plays every single character of ’The Marriage of Figaro’, interspersed with musical moments of Mozart’s masterful score, arranged for piano. Bethany Simons | Actor Alex Raineri | Piano…
Editor's Choice Boojum!

Victorian Opera: Boojum!

Horticultural Hall 31 Victoria Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith’s 1977 work Boojum! received its premiere at the 1986 Adelaide Festival, directed by Gale Edwards. Sitting somewhere on the fault line between opera and musical theatre, it takes characters from Lewis Carroll’s timeless Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and interweaves them with the Victorian author’s classic nonsense…
Editor's Choice Boojum!

Victorian Opera: Boojum!

Horticultural Hall 31 Victoria Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith’s 1977 work Boojum! received its premiere at the 1986 Adelaide Festival, directed by Gale Edwards. Sitting somewhere on the fault line between opera and musical theatre, it takes characters from Lewis Carroll’s timeless Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and interweaves them with the Victorian author’s classic nonsense…
Editor's Choice Carmen

Opera Australia: Carmen

Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Anne-Louise Sarks is at the helm for a new production of Carmen that brings Bizet’s classic bang up to date. An intriguing lineup of talent is headed by Danielle de Niese as Carmen, alternating with Sian Sharp. Mexican-Spanish tenor Abraham Bretón shares the role of Don José with Diego Torre,…
José Carreras

Scali Promotions Australia: José Carreras – Melbourne Concert

Margaret Court Arena Olympic Blvd,, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
One of the legendary 3 Tenors, José Carreras returns to Australia this November. On this tour, the tenor will be joined on stage by a guest soprano, under the baton of Maestro David Giménez and accompanied by a 45-piece orchestra. The Melbourne show will be on Sat 15 Nov 2025…
Editor's Choice Boojum!

Victorian Opera: Boojum!

Horticultural Hall 31 Victoria Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith’s 1977 work Boojum! received its premiere at the 1986 Adelaide Festival, directed by Gale Edwards. Sitting somewhere on the fault line between opera and musical theatre, it takes characters from Lewis Carroll’s timeless Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and interweaves them with the Victorian author’s classic nonsense…

Co-ordinating Italian Committee: Opera Primavera

Norwood Concert Hall 175 The Parade, Norwood, SA, Australia
Opera is magic! Come and enjoy one of the highlights of the Adelaide Italian Festival – Opera Primavera – with a quartet of magnificent singers presenting an entertaining program of Italian arias, duets and ensembles by great composers such as Puccini, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Donizetti, Rossini and more. Sydney soprano Imogen-Faith…
Editor's Choice Carmen

Opera Australia: Carmen

Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Anne-Louise Sarks is at the helm for a new production of Carmen that brings Bizet’s classic bang up to date. An intriguing lineup of talent is headed by Danielle de Niese as Carmen, alternating with Sian Sharp. Mexican-Spanish tenor Abraham Bretón shares the role of Don José with Diego Torre,…

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