• Editor's Choice Madama Butterfly

    Opera Australia: Madama Butterfly

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Moffatt Oxenbould’s much-loved staging of Puccini’s classic was officially retired by Opera Australia in 2017. Now, it’s making a comeback, revived here by Matthew Barclay. “It’s cleverly conceived by Oxenbould and his design team as an exotic, seductive world as seen through Pinkerton’s eyes,” wrote Jo Litson for Limelight. OA’s…
    Editor's Choice Hansel & Gretel

    Opera Australia: Hansel & Gretel

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Engelbert Humperdinck’s timeless fairytale opera is a setting of the Brothers Grimm’s story of child neglect, sugar addiction and cannibalism (just kidding!). It’s also a bagful of good tunes. Elijah Moshinsky’s classic production is presented here in a lively English translation. Margaret Plummer and Stacey Alleaume play the resourceful kids sent…
    Editor's Choice A Winter’s Journey

    Musica Viva Australia: A Winter’s Journey

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Allan Clayton, one of the finest tenors on the world stage, returns for a substantial national tour of Winterreise. Lindy Hume’s evocative staging, titled A Winter’s Tale, imagines Schubert’s increasingly disillusioned wanderer trekking through a desolate landscape made up of Fred Williams’ paintings of Australia and brought to life by…
    Editor's Choice Turandot

    Opera Australia: Turandot

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    International director and choreographer Ann Yee has been recruited to stage a new production of Puccini’s Turandot in a way that is sensitive to issues of race and gender by focusing on the implacable princess’s courage, her ancestor’s trauma and the sacrificial love of another woman. Rebecca Nash, fresh from…
    Editor's Choice Hansel & Gretel

    Opera Australia: Hansel & Gretel

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Engelbert Humperdinck’s timeless fairytale opera is a setting of the Brothers Grimm’s story of child neglect, sugar addiction and cannibalism (just kidding!). It’s also a bagful of good tunes. Elijah Moshinsky’s classic production is presented here in a lively English translation. Margaret Plummer and Stacey Alleaume play the resourceful kids sent…
  • Editor's Choice Madama Butterfly

    Opera Australia: Madama Butterfly

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Moffatt Oxenbould’s much-loved staging of Puccini’s classic was officially retired by Opera Australia in 2017. Now, it’s making a comeback, revived here by Matthew Barclay. “It’s cleverly conceived by Oxenbould and his design team as an exotic, seductive world as seen through Pinkerton’s eyes,” wrote Jo Litson for Limelight. OA’s…
    Editor's Choice Anastasia

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Anastasia

    Crown Theatre Great Eastern Hwy, Burswood, WA, Australia
    The 2017 Broadway musical, with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and book by Terrence McNally, is based on the much-loved 1997 animated film. It centres on the mystery surrounding the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna who was rumoured to have escaped (since disproved) when the Russian Imperial family…
    Editor's Choice A Winter’s Journey

    Musica Viva Australia: A Winter’s Journey

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Allan Clayton, one of the finest tenors on the world stage, returns for a substantial national tour of Winterreise. Lindy Hume’s evocative staging, titled A Winter’s Tale, imagines Schubert’s increasingly disillusioned wanderer trekking through a desolate landscape made up of Fred Williams’ paintings of Australia and brought to life by…
    Editor's Choice Madama Butterfly

    Opera Australia: Madama Butterfly

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Moffatt Oxenbould’s much-loved staging of Puccini’s classic was officially retired by Opera Australia in 2017. Now, it’s making a comeback, revived here by Matthew Barclay. “It’s cleverly conceived by Oxenbould and his design team as an exotic, seductive world as seen through Pinkerton’s eyes,” wrote Jo Litson for Limelight. OA’s…
    Editor's Choice Anastasia

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Anastasia

    Crown Theatre Great Eastern Hwy, Burswood, WA, Australia
    The 2017 Broadway musical, with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and book by Terrence McNally, is based on the much-loved 1997 animated film. It centres on the mystery surrounding the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna who was rumoured to have escaped (since disproved) when the Russian Imperial family…
    Editor's Choice Anastasia

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Anastasia

    Crown Theatre Great Eastern Hwy, Burswood, WA, Australia
    The 2017 Broadway musical, with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and book by Terrence McNally, is based on the much-loved 1997 animated film. It centres on the mystery surrounding the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna who was rumoured to have escaped (since disproved) when the Russian Imperial family…
    Editor's Choice Turandot

    Opera Australia: Turandot

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    International director and choreographer Ann Yee has been recruited to stage a new production of Puccini’s Turandot in a way that is sensitive to issues of race and gender by focusing on the implacable princess’s courage, her ancestor’s trauma and the sacrificial love of another woman. Rebecca Nash, fresh from…