• Editor's Choice Boojum!

    Victorian Opera: Boojum!

    Horticultural Hall 31 Victoria Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith’s 1977 work Boojum! received its premiere at the 1986 Adelaide Festival, directed by Gale Edwards. Sitting somewhere on the fault line between opera and musical theatre, it takes characters from Lewis Carroll’s timeless Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and interweaves them with the Victorian author’s classic nonsense…
    Editor's Choice Carmen

    Opera Australia: Carmen

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Anne-Louise Sarks is at the helm for a new production of Carmen that brings Bizet’s classic bang up to date. An intriguing lineup of talent is headed by Danielle de Niese as Carmen, alternating with Sian Sharp. Mexican-Spanish tenor Abraham Bretón shares the role of Don José with Diego Torre,…
    Editor's Choice Boojum!

    Victorian Opera: Boojum!

    Horticultural Hall 31 Victoria Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith’s 1977 work Boojum! received its premiere at the 1986 Adelaide Festival, directed by Gale Edwards. Sitting somewhere on the fault line between opera and musical theatre, it takes characters from Lewis Carroll’s timeless Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and interweaves them with the Victorian author’s classic nonsense…
    A Certain Slant of Light

    Operantics: A Certain Slant of Light

    Blackheath Uniting Church 43 Govetts Leap Rd,, Blackheath, NSW, Australia
    "There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes –" Emily Dickinson spent most of her life in a single room, but her imagination has reached far beyond 19th century Amherst. In her solitude, she penned nearly 1,800 poems—fleeting, enigmatic, and profound—capturing…
    Editor's Choice Carmen

    Opera Australia: Carmen

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Anne-Louise Sarks is at the helm for a new production of Carmen that brings Bizet’s classic bang up to date. An intriguing lineup of talent is headed by Danielle de Niese as Carmen, alternating with Sian Sharp. Mexican-Spanish tenor Abraham Bretón shares the role of Don José with Diego Torre,…
    Editor's Choice Carmen

    Opera Australia: Carmen

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Anne-Louise Sarks is at the helm for a new production of Carmen that brings Bizet’s classic bang up to date. An intriguing lineup of talent is headed by Danielle de Niese as Carmen, alternating with Sian Sharp. Mexican-Spanish tenor Abraham Bretón shares the role of Don José with Diego Torre,…
    Editor's Choice Bernstein & Busoni

    Endangered Productions: Bernstein & Busoni

    Eternity Playhouse 39 Burton Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    Two one-act operas, one hardly ever seen, should definitely be worth catching. With its high-octane jazz and scat-infused score, Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti is an acerbic exposé of the American Dream set in 1950s suburbia. Peter Coleman-Wright and Cheryl Barker play Sam and Dinah, a couple on the verge,…
    Editor's Choice Bernstein & Busoni

    Endangered Productions: Bernstein & Busoni

    Eternity Playhouse 39 Burton Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    Two one-act operas, one hardly ever seen, should definitely be worth catching. With its high-octane jazz and scat-infused score, Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti is an acerbic exposé of the American Dream set in 1950s suburbia. Peter Coleman-Wright and Cheryl Barker play Sam and Dinah, a couple on the verge,…
    Editor's Choice Bernstein & Busoni

    Endangered Productions: Bernstein & Busoni

    Eternity Playhouse 39 Burton Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
    Two one-act operas, one hardly ever seen, should definitely be worth catching. With its high-octane jazz and scat-infused score, Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti is an acerbic exposé of the American Dream set in 1950s suburbia. Peter Coleman-Wright and Cheryl Barker play Sam and Dinah, a couple on the verge,…
  • Editor's Choice Orpheus & Eurydice

    Opera Australia: Orpheus & Eurydice

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Yaron Lifschitz’s dazzling staging of Gluck’s opera features circus artists performing alongside singers. It’s the familiar story – boy loses girl, boy finds girl, girl looks back . . . but aided here by video design and acrobatics. “The breathtaking physical work creates a vivid language to describe Orpheus’s living…
    Opera in the Pub

    Opera Bites: Opera Celebration

    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 Bites has partnered with The Harold in Glebe to bring you the world’s favourite opera highlights in the relaxed environs of a great local pub.…
    Editor's Choice Orpheus & Eurydice

    Opera Australia: Orpheus & Eurydice

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Yaron Lifschitz’s dazzling staging of Gluck’s opera features circus artists performing alongside singers. It’s the familiar story – boy loses girl, boy finds girl, girl looks back . . . but aided here by video design and acrobatics. “The breathtaking physical work creates a vivid language to describe Orpheus’s living…