• Editor's Choice

    Festival of Outback Opera: Singing in the Night

    Camden Park Station Longreach, QLD, Australia
    Opera Queensland travels to two of the region’s finest outback towns, combining opera with ochre sunsets and great pubs. There’s an opera ball for those who like to glam up, gala concerts under the night skies with Dark Sky Serenade and Singing in the Night, or you can just enjoy…
    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…

    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.…