This month our features explore investing in music education, re-evaluating Australian culture through a regional lens, two stage adaptations of Jekyll and Hyde and whether postmodernism has put paid to beauty.
July 15, 2022
International acts return for the first time in two years, alongside 20 world premieres, with more than half of the 500-odd performances offered free of charge.
May 31, 2022
A welcome revival of Weill and Brecht’s follow-up to The Threepenny Opera.
March 24, 2022
OQ's 2022 season features two newly commissioned works, a classic, a regional tour and the return of the Studio Series and the Festival of Outback Opera, with a strong focus on women.
November 15, 2021
Winners of this year’s Green Room Awards include Rachael Maza, Artistic Director of Ilbijerri Theatre Company, and arts journalist Richard Watts, who both received Lifetime Achievement Awards.
June 29, 2021
Cabaret and opera combine in this gleeful myth deconstruction, giving you plenty to think and talk about.
March 7, 2021
The 40th anniversary season will feature Lorelei, a new Marriage of Figaro and Aida with Opera Australia, as well as a regional tour of Are You Lonesome Tonight, which combines opera and country music.
November 28, 2020
The SSO kicks off 2020 with mambos and marine life in a burlesque season opener.
February 7, 2020
Once again it was Counting and Cracking's night as the epic new play from Belvoir and Co-Curious took home three more awards.
July 15, 2019
The familiar pleasures of Sondheim’s masterpiece are refreshed by splendid performers and design.
June 28, 2019
This new commission gives an old story an entertaining makeover with style-hopping music, comedy and feminist attitude.
November 5, 2018
She succeeds Ali McGregor, who has helmed the Festival for the last three years.
June 25, 2018