• 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…

    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…
    Opera Triple Bill

    Voxalis Opera: Opera Triple Bill

    Saint Andrew's Uniting Church 299 Ann St, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Three short operas. Three emotional worlds. One shared humanity. At its core is Francis Poulenc’s The Human Voice, a groundbreaking monodrama that strips opera back to a single voice and a final phone call with a lost lover—raw, exposed, and devastatingly human. The program continues with the Australian premieres of…
    Editor's Choice La Stupenda

    Opera Australia: La Stupenda

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Dame Joan Sutherland was a part of Australia’s operatic history from 1965, when she toured Australia with her husband Richard Bonynge and a young Luciano Pavarotti, until her legendary farewell at the Sydney Opera House in 1990. Laura Tingle is the host and Jessica Pratt the leading lady in this…
    Opera Triple Bill

    Voxalis Opera: Opera Triple Bill

    Saint Andrew's Uniting Church 299 Ann St, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Three short operas. Three emotional worlds. One shared humanity. At its core is Francis Poulenc’s The Human Voice, a groundbreaking monodrama that strips opera back to a single voice and a final phone call with a lost lover—raw, exposed, and devastatingly human. The program continues with the Australian premieres of…
    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 Hansel and Gretel

    State Opera South Australia: Hansel and Gretel

    His Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide
    Constantine Costi applies his fertile brain to Humperdinck’s Wagnerian family favourite based on a typically gory story from the Brothers Grimm. With its haunted forest, gingerbread house and child-gobbling witch, there’s plenty for a director to get their teeth into, and while the marketing hyperbole suggests that this will be Hansel…
    Editor's Choice La Stupenda

    Opera Australia: La Stupenda

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Dame Joan Sutherland was a part of Australia’s operatic history from 1965, when she toured Australia with her husband Richard Bonynge and a young Luciano Pavarotti, until her legendary farewell at the Sydney Opera House in 1990. Laura Tingle is the host and Jessica Pratt the leading lady in this…

    Theatre North: A Night with Opera Australia

    Albert Hall, Launceston 47 Tamar St, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    An evening of extraordinary storytelling and song. Join us as Opera Australia, one of the world’s most celebrated opera companies, takes over the historic Albert Hall for an evening that promises passion and peril, heroes and monsters, lovers and liars. Whether you’re an opera devotee or simply curious, this is…
    Editor's Choice Hansel and Gretel

    State Opera South Australia: Hansel and Gretel

    His Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide
    Constantine Costi applies his fertile brain to Humperdinck’s Wagnerian family favourite based on a typically gory story from the Brothers Grimm. With its haunted forest, gingerbread house and child-gobbling witch, there’s plenty for a director to get their teeth into, and while the marketing hyperbole suggests that this will be Hansel…

    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…