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Opera Bites: Opera in the Pub at The Harold

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. Tickets include a 90-minute, fully costumed show, upstairs at The Harold. Show starts 7.30pm. Fabulous food and drinks available for separate purchase at the venue. From…
Event Series Sydney Art Quartet – Uncorked

Sydney Art Quartet: Uncorked

Urban Winery Sydney 122 Lang Road, Moore Part, NSW, Australia
Sydney Art Quartet performs Beethoven, Shaw and Dvořák Prepare to have your taste buds tickled and your listening senses heightened as the Sydney Art Quartet takes you on a journey through the wine regions surrounding Sydney. Let Urban Winery Sydney owner, Alex Retief, and our indisposed cellist, Andy Hines, guide…
Event Series A Little Night Music

Hayes Theatre Co: A Little Night Music

Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, Sondheim’s A Little Night Music  is a wonderfully witty and deeply moving romance, exploring desire, passion and regret. Be swept away by classic songs like “A Weekend in the Country”, “The Miller’s Son” and the iconic and pensive “Send in the Clowns”. Just…
Everything Flickers

The Blue Room Theatre: Everything Flickers

The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
Art and storytelling transcends peoples, cultures and crises. Yet in the past decade Australia’s arts sector has suffered relentless funding cuts and a consequent cultural devaluation of arts as a career. Through a rich tapestry of images, Everything Flickers laments what has been lost. All the while, the work searches for the…
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Castiglione Arts & Culture: Juan Diego Flórez

Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Place, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez has had a seat at opera’s top table for decades, making his Australian debut a much-anticipated event. With a string of hit albums and acclaimed international performances, he has established himself as one of the leading exponents of both the bel canto and the French…
Event Series Bright

Footscray Community Arts: Bright

Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia
Footscray Community Arts presents Bright – a joyful art exhibition that ignites the senses, inviting audiences to touch, explore and connect from 10 October to 12 December 2023. The exhibition’s radical curatorial process brings together five installations without a defined beginning or end, each beckoning the artlover to interact with…

PICA: The Purple Shall Govern

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 51 James Street, Perth, WA, Australia
Artist Roberta Joy Rich delves into South Africa and Australia’s histories of segregation, oppression and resilience. Featuring archival material, Roberta asks, "How does power define public space?"
Event Series mane djang karirra: the place where the dreaming changed shape

Maningrida Arts and Culture: mane djang karirra: the place where the dreaming changed shape

Flinders University Museum of Art Flinders University, Sturt Road, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
An exquisite collection of 48 works spotlighting contemporary painting practice in central and western Arnhem Land and the recent rise and recognition of women in this realm. It comprises paintings on bark and on carved and woven objects, featuring imagery that has its roots in ancient rock art and ceremonial…
Event Series Beguiling

Dr Lisa Anderson: Beguiling

Victorian Pride Centre 79/81 Fitzroy St, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Beguiling is a multimedia exhibition, including both images and videos, by internationally renowned Australian artist Dr Lisa Anderson which explores the parallel elements of beauty and destruction through the Anthropocene. The photographs, captured over many years including from visits to the Artic and Antarctic, have been altered through scarring with…
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Event Series The Dictionary of Lost Words

Sydney Theatre Company: The Dictionary of Lost Words

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Pip Williams’ award-winning New York Times bestseller and book club favourite, The Dictionary of Lost Words, will be brought to vivid life in a new adaptation for the stage by Verity Laughton and directed by one of Australia’s best directors, Jessica Arthur (Grand Horizons, Wonnangatta). It’s 1886 and the very…
Event Series Wicked

John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Wicked

Sydney Lyric Theatre 55 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia
The Broadway sensation Wicked looks at what happened in the Land of Oz… but from a different angle. Long before Dorothy arrives, there is another young woman, born with emerald-green skin, who is smart, fiery, misunderstood and possessing an extraordinary talent. When she meets a bubbly blonde who is exceptionally popular,…
Miss Saigon
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Opera Australia: Miss Saigon

Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne 219 Exhibition St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
This Cameron Mackintosh production, presented by Opera Australia, is electrifying on every front. Written by Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schönberg (Les Misérables), the 1989 musical is based on Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Set in Saigon in the dying days of the Vietnam War, it tells the heartbreaking story of the doomed love affair between Chris, an…

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