Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks helms a new production of Bizet’s classic that aims to be “a Carmen for our time”, asking “urgent questions about opera’s iconic femme fatale”. Given her insightful semi-staged take on Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves last year, she might just do it. An intriguing…

Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks helms a new production of Bizet’s classic that aims to be “a Carmen for our time”, asking “urgent questions about opera’s iconic femme fatale”. Given her insightful semi-staged take on Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves last year, she might just do it. An intriguing…

This year, the world is celebrating the 150th birthday of Maurice Ravel, composer, pianist and colouristic master of instrumentation. Alongside his best-known orchestral works, he also wrote two operas – L’heure espagnole and L'enfant et les sortilèges – as well as a series of delicately perfumed and multifaceted songs, any…

Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks helms a new production of Bizet’s classic that aims to be “a Carmen for our time”, asking “urgent questions about opera’s iconic femme fatale”. Given her insightful semi-staged take on Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves last year, she might just do it. An intriguing…

This year, the world is celebrating the 150th birthday of Maurice Ravel, composer, pianist and colouristic master of instrumentation. Alongside his best-known orchestral works, he also wrote two operas – L’heure espagnole and L'enfant et les sortilèges – as well as a series of delicately perfumed and multifaceted songs, any…

Moffatt Oxenbould’s much-loved staging of Puccini’s classic was retired by Opera Australia back in 2017. Fans will therefore be delighted to see it pop up eight years later in Perth, revived by Matthew Barclay. “It’s cleverly conceived by Oxenbould and his design team as an exotic, seductive world as seen…

Moffatt Oxenbould’s much-loved staging of Puccini’s classic was retired by Opera Australia back in 2017. Fans will therefore be delighted to see it pop up eight years later in Perth, revived by Matthew Barclay. “It’s cleverly conceived by Oxenbould and his design team as an exotic, seductive world as seen…

Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks helms a new production of Bizet’s classic that aims to be “a Carmen for our time”, asking “urgent questions about opera’s iconic femme fatale”. Given her insightful semi-staged take on Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves last year, she might just do it. An intriguing…