• JUBILEE: Celebrating 150 years of Gilbert and Sullivan

    Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: JUBILEE: Celebrating 150 years of Gilbert and Sullivan

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    This production in the heart of Melbourne’s theatre district celebrates 90 glorious years of ‘innocent merriment’ from one of Australia's oldest performing arts groups, Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria, and 150 years of Trial By Jury, which began the most successful partnership that the theatre has known.

    The Clocktower Centre: A Night on Broadway

    The Clocktower Centre 750 Mount Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds, VIC, Australia
    Experience some of the most magical musical moments of  international song with one of Australia’s leading acts, sensational Australian group Pot-Pourri. Featuring most-loved highlights from Broadway, music theatre and opera including Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Carmen, La Traviata, Madam Butterfly, Turandot, Lakme, Westside Story, Cats, Chicago, Andrea Bocelli,…
    JUBILEE: Celebrating 150 years of Gilbert and Sullivan

    Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: JUBILEE: Celebrating 150 years of Gilbert and Sullivan

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    This production in the heart of Melbourne’s theatre district celebrates 90 glorious years of ‘innocent merriment’ from one of Australia's oldest performing arts groups, Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria, and 150 years of Trial By Jury, which began the most successful partnership that the theatre has known.
    Editor's Choice Songs from the Uproar – The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

    Lyric Opera of Melbourne: Songs from the Uproar – The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

    fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Melbourne’s intrepid Lyric Opera presents the Australian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar. Set to a libretto by Royce Vavrek, the chamber opera tells the story of Isabelle Eberhardt, a Swiss-Algerian explorer, writer and mystic. Born in 1877, Eberhardt travelled to North Africa where she lived an adventurous, defiant…
    Editor's Choice Il trovatore

    West Australian Opera: Il trovatore

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    Elke Neidhardt’s classic staging of Verdi’s opera comes to Perth. The plot – involving sibling rivalry, mixed-up babies and vengeful mothers – may have more twists and turns than a gypsy’s fandango, but it boasts a back-to-back run of opera’s greatest hits, from the Anvil Chorus to the tenor’s heroic Di quella pira. Asher…
    Editor's Choice Roméo et Juliette

    State Opera South Australia: Roméo et Juliette

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Gounod’s operatic take on Shakespeare’s tale gets a new staging in this co-production by SOSA, West Australian Opera and Irish National Opera. The French composer sticks pretty close to the play with a sparkling score that includes Juliette’s famous waltz song, Ah! Je veux vivre, four love duets and a…
    Opera’s Bad Girl

    Canta Viva: Opera’s Bad Girl

    Ballarat Mechanics Institute 117-119 Sturt St, Ballarat Central, VIC
    Original diva Anna Bishop, a daring contemporary of Queen Victoria, shattered expectations and redefined independence when she left her famous composer husband to forge her own artistic path. Bravely defying the social norms of the time — and forced to leave her beloved children behind — she toured the globe…
    Editor's Choice Songs from the Uproar – The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

    Lyric Opera of Melbourne: Songs from the Uproar – The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

    fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Melbourne’s intrepid Lyric Opera presents the Australian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar. Set to a libretto by Royce Vavrek, the chamber opera tells the story of Isabelle Eberhardt, a Swiss-Algerian explorer, writer and mystic. Born in 1877, Eberhardt travelled to North Africa where she lived an adventurous, defiant…
    Editor's Choice Roméo et Juliette

    State Opera South Australia: Roméo et Juliette

    Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Gounod’s operatic take on Shakespeare’s tale gets a new staging in this co-production by SOSA, West Australian Opera and Irish National Opera. The French composer sticks pretty close to the play with a sparkling score that includes Juliette’s famous waltz song, Ah! Je veux vivre, four love duets and a…
    Opera’s Bad Girl

    Canta Viva: Opera’s Bad Girl

    St Andrew's Anglican Church, Brighton 228 New St, Brighton, VIC, Australia
    Original diva Anna Bishop, a daring contemporary of Queen Victoria, shattered expectations and redefined independence when she left her famous composer husband to forge her own artistic path. Bravely defying the social norms of the time — and forced to leave her beloved children behind — she toured the globe…
    Editor's Choice Songs from the Uproar – The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

    Lyric Opera of Melbourne: Songs from the Uproar – The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

    fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Melbourne’s intrepid Lyric Opera presents the Australian premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar. Set to a libretto by Royce Vavrek, the chamber opera tells the story of Isabelle Eberhardt, a Swiss-Algerian explorer, writer and mystic. Born in 1877, Eberhardt travelled to North Africa where she lived an adventurous, defiant…
    Editor's Choice Il trovatore

    West Australian Opera: Il trovatore

    His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
    Elke Neidhardt’s classic staging of Verdi’s opera comes to Perth. The plot – involving sibling rivalry, mixed-up babies and vengeful mothers – may have more twists and turns than a gypsy’s fandango, but it boasts a back-to-back run of opera’s greatest hits, from the Anvil Chorus to the tenor’s heroic Di quella pira. Asher…