• Great Opera Hits

    Opera Australia: Great Opera Hits

    Sydney Opera House - Joan Sutherland Theatre Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Stroll down to the Sydney Opera House and join the stars of Opera Australia for a concert of the greatest hits of opera. These relaxed concerts take place as the sun sets across Sydney Harbour, and last around 90 minutes. Listen to famous arias from Bizet, Puccini, Rossini, Verdi and…

    Newcastle Music Festival: Opera Cocktails

    Stanley Park 77 Fullerton Cove Road, Fullerton Cove, NSW, Australia
    Newcastle Music Festival's annual Opera Cocktails soiree at The Barn at Stanley Park is always a glittering event. Your ticket includes a delicious finger food supper and Tamburlaine Organic Wines. Bookings are essential. This event showcases both emerging and acclaimed stars of Australian opera and has been proud to feature…
    Great Opera Hits

    Opera Australia: Great Opera Hits

    Sydney Opera House - Joan Sutherland Theatre Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Stroll down to the Sydney Opera House and join the stars of Opera Australia for a concert of the greatest hits of opera. These relaxed concerts take place as the sun sets across Sydney Harbour, and last around 90 minutes. Listen to famous arias from Bizet, Puccini, Rossini, Verdi and…
    Editor's Choice The Drover’s Wife

    Opera Australia: The Drover’s Wife

    Sydney Opera House - Joan Sutherland Theatre Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Alongside seasons of The Merry Widow (until 18 August) and Rigoletto (until 21 August), Opera Australia presents The Drover’s Wife, a new opera based on the play, novel and film by Leah Purcell, with music by George Palmer. First staged in Brisbane in May, Limelight described it as “a searing…
    The Drover’s Wife

    Opera Australia: The Drover’s Wife

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    They will say a story ended, those who cannot understand, no-one’s story ends forever, our Dreaming is forever. Molly Johnson is a survivor. Heavily pregnant, she’s left alone to care for her children in a remote Snowy Mountains shanty. Between the snakes, bullocks and hostile travellers on her doorstep, she…
    Editor's Choice WAO

    West Australian Opera: Eugene Onegin

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    Cameron Menzies directs this production of Tchaikovsky’s classic tale of unrequited love and the road not taken. Adapted from Pushkin, the opera stars Australian soprano Eleanor Lyons as Tatyana, whose youthful emotions are awakened by the careless attentions of the worldly and fatally aloof Onegin. He’s sung here by baritone Samuel Dundas…
    Editor's Choice Rigoletto

    Opera Australia: Rigoletto

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Verdi’s embittered jester makes a welcome return in Elijah Moshinsky’s typically insightful production. Celebrated Czech baritone Dalibor Jenis dons the twisted clown greasepaint as he reprises the title role, with Korean-Australian soprano Gemma Nha making her OA debut as his daughter Gilda and Australian-Chinese tenor Kang Wang as the dissolute…

    Murray Dahm: Opera Lecture Series – The Operas of the Age of Puccini

    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. In the late 19th century, Italian…
    Editor's Choice WAO

    West Australian Opera: Eugene Onegin

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    Cameron Menzies directs this production of Tchaikovsky’s classic tale of unrequited love and the road not taken. Adapted from Pushkin, the opera stars Australian soprano Eleanor Lyons as Tatyana, whose youthful emotions are awakened by the careless attentions of the worldly and fatally aloof Onegin. He’s sung here by baritone Samuel Dundas…
    Editor's Choice The Merry Widow

    Opera Australia: The Merry Widow

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Graeme Murphy’s production of Lehár’s evergreen operetta receives a welcome revival. As Pontevedro teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, its ambassador will do whatever it takes to prevent the wealthy widow Hanna Glavari from marrying a foreigner. When her old flame Count Danilo refuses to marry for money, the result is…
    Editor's Choice Rigoletto

    Opera Australia: Rigoletto

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Verdi’s embittered jester makes a welcome return in Elijah Moshinsky’s typically insightful production. Celebrated Czech baritone Dalibor Jenis dons the twisted clown greasepaint as he reprises the title role, with Korean-Australian soprano Gemma Nha making her OA debut as his daughter Gilda and Australian-Chinese tenor Kang Wang as the dissolute…
    Editor's Choice The Drover’s Wife

    Opera Australia: The Drover’s Wife

    Sydney Opera House - Joan Sutherland Theatre Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Alongside seasons of The Merry Widow (until 18 August) and Rigoletto (until 21 August), Opera Australia presents The Drover’s Wife, a new opera based on the play, novel and film by Leah Purcell, with music by George Palmer. First staged in Brisbane in May, Limelight described it as “a searing…