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Puccini’s La Bohème

Opera Australia: Puccini’s La Bohème

Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
Experience the original bohemian love story. When Mimì meets Rodolfo, it’s love at first touch. They head out to bustling Café Momus, where the feisty Musetta and Marcello rekindle their relationship. But even the deepest love can’t warm a freezing winter. For our bohemians, everything is possible and the future…
The Mikado

Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria: The Mikado

The Alexander Theatre 48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
The Mikado is an enduringly popular comic opera with memorable music, endearing characters and some of the wittiest lyrical comedy in the English language. Featuring much loved songs such as “I’ve Got A Little List” (the better known title of “As Someday it May Happen”), “A Wand’ring Minstrel I”, “Three…
Editor's Choice Rusalka

Opera Australia: Rusalka

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Following her admired La traviata, Sarah Giles’ attention turns to Dvořák’s fairytale opera about a water sprite who barters the power of speech to enter the world of humans. Nicole Car returns to the OA stage for the first time in seven years to sing the title role. Gerard Schneider…
The Mikado

Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria: The Mikado

The Alexander Theatre 48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
The Mikado is an enduringly popular comic opera with memorable music, endearing characters and some of the wittiest lyrical comedy in the English language. Featuring much loved songs such as “I’ve Got A Little List” (the better known title of “As Someday it May Happen”), “A Wand’ring Minstrel I”, “Three…
The Old Maid and The Thief and The Telephone

Mopoke Theatre Productions: The Old Maid and The Thief and The Telephone

State Opera South Australia Studio 216 Marion Road, Netley, South Australia, Australia
Mopoke Theatre Productions is delighted to present a double bill of Menotti’s operas: The Telephone and The Old Maid and The Thief this July! From spicy gossip to mistaken identities, this double bill is sure to have you in hysterics! Featuring a cast of some of South Australia’s best operatic…
Puccini’s La Bohème

Opera Australia: Puccini’s La Bohème

Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
Experience the original bohemian love story. When Mimì meets Rodolfo, it’s love at first touch. They head out to bustling Café Momus, where the feisty Musetta and Marcello rekindle their relationship. But even the deepest love can’t warm a freezing winter. For our bohemians, everything is possible and the future…
The Mikado

Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria: The Mikado

The Alexander Theatre 48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
The Mikado is an enduringly popular comic opera with memorable music, endearing characters and some of the wittiest lyrical comedy in the English language. Featuring much loved songs such as “I’ve Got A Little List” (the better known title of “As Someday it May Happen”), “A Wand’ring Minstrel I”, “Three…
The Old Maid and The Thief and The Telephone

Mopoke Theatre Productions: The Old Maid and The Thief and The Telephone

State Opera South Australia Studio 216 Marion Road, Netley, South Australia, Australia
Mopoke Theatre Productions is delighted to present a double bill of Menotti’s operas: The Telephone and The Old Maid and The Thief this July! From spicy gossip to mistaken identities, this double bill is sure to have you in hysterics! Featuring a cast of some of South Australia’s best operatic…
Editor's Choice Carmen

Opera Australia: Carmen

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
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…
Editor's Choice Rusalka

Opera Australia: Rusalka

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Following her admired La traviata, Sarah Giles’ attention turns to Dvořák’s fairytale opera about a water sprite who barters the power of speech to enter the world of humans. Nicole Car returns to the OA stage for the first time in seven years to sing the title role. Gerard Schneider…
Editor's Choice Carmen

Opera Australia: Carmen

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
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…
Editor's Choice Ravel 150

Opera Queensland: Ravel 150

Opera Queensland Studio South Bank, QLD, Australia
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…

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