• 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 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

    Opera Australia: BMW Opera for All

    Federation Square Swanston St & Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    BMW Opera for All returns to Melbourne’s Federation Square for the fourth year running. The free, open-air concert, which showcases some of opera’s most popular arias, features soprano Julie Lea Goodwin, mezzo-soprano Emily Edmonds, tenor Asher Reichman and baritone Stephen Marsh accompanied by 20 musicians from Orchestra Victoria under the…
    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 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…
    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 Eugene Onegin

    Opera Australia: Eugene Onegin

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Kaspar Holten’s cerebral yet impassioned Covent Garden staging of Tchaikovsky’s classic cleverly uses the protagonists’ younger selves to remind them of the road not taken. Australian soprano Lauren Fagan, who has been earning rave notices internationally, makes a welcome return as Tatyana, the young woman whose emotions are awakened by…
    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…