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    • The Oresteia

    ELISION Ensemble: The Oresteia

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Electra, Cassandra, Orestes, Clytemnestra and Agamemnon are hereby summoned to relive their murderous tragedies in Liza Lim‘s first opera, The Oresteia. Sydney Chamber Opera, the acclaimed company that created Aphrodite (2025) and Gilgamesh (2024), returns with a searing distillation of the foundational Greek tragedy in an explosive, hour-long masterpiece of…
    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…
    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…
    Opera in the Pub

    Opera Bites: “Opera Plot . . . or Not?”

    Keg & Brew 26 Foveaux Street Surry Hills, Sydney, 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 Plot . . . or Not? Whether it’s outer space, under the sea, the real world or some time in history, operas have some of…
    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…
    Opera Lecture Series – The Operas of the Age of Puccini

    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 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…