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Opera
Live Review

Review: The Brisbane Ring: Third Cycle (Opera Australia)

To witness Anna-Louise Cole's debut as Brünnhilde was something special – as was Chen Shi-Zheng's dazzling production.

December 22, 2023
Opera
Live Review

Review: Götterdämmerung (Opera Australia)

A six-star finale to Chen Shi-Zheng’s five-star Ring Cycle sticks to the script and proves all the world loves a good bedtime story.

December 8, 2023
Opera
Live Review

Review: Siegfried (Opera Australia)

The third opera in Wagner’s tetralogy throws up plenty of challenges, but Chen Shi-Zheng tackles them boldly and triumphs.

December 6, 2023
Opera
Live Review

Review: Die Walküre (Opera Australia)

Chen Shi-Zheng’s meticulous staging of the second opera in Wagner's tetralogy proves his Ring Cycle is one for the ages.

December 4, 2023
Opera
Live Review

Review: Das Rheingold (Opera Australia)

Chen Shi-Zheng’s finely crafted Ring Cycle heralds a return to Neue Bayreuth, but with a human touch.

December 2, 2023
Classical Music, Film, Opera, Orchestral, Theatre, Vocal & Choral
news

Introducing the October 2023 issue of Limelight

This month's features explore OA's new 'Digital Ring', the stage adaptation of The Dictionary of Lost Words, Mahler's Ninth, and Sir Eugene Goossens' push for the SOH.

September 13, 2023
Opera
features

Turandon’t? On racism and representation in opera

In an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, Cat-Thao Nguyen said she left OA's Turandot after Act 1 feeling "utterly sick" at the racism. We look at the complex issue.

March 4, 2022
Classical Music, Opera
news

Opera Australia announces 2023 dates for Brisbane Ring Cycle

The third time’s the charm (hopefully) for OA’s new fully digital production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle.

November 29, 2021
Opera
news

OA postpones its Brisbane Ring Cycle, again

With a hard border closure now in place in Queensland, Opera Australia has been forced to postpone its new Brisbane Ring Cycle for the second year running due to COVID.

August 19, 2021
Classical Music, Opera
news

New dates for Opera Australia’s Brisbane Ring Cycle announced

The new Ring Cycle, directed by Chen Shi-Zheng, will kick off at the end of October next year, after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the company to reschedule.

August 13, 2020
Opera
news

Opera Australia announces a digital Ring Cycle

The company is to present a fully digital, 21st-century staging of Wagner’s epic tetralogy in Brisbane in 2020, directed by Chen Shi-Zheng.

May 29, 2019

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