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Opera
Live Review

Review: Serse (Lyric Opera of Melbourne)

Sally-Anne Russell interprets the title role in Handel’s fictional romp about Persian king Xerxes.

September 11, 2026
Opera
Live Review

Review: Il trovatore (Melbourne Opera)

Splendid singing by Helena Dix, Rosario La Spina and Christopher Hillier compensates for a potboiler plot.

August 25, 2026
Opera
Live Review

Review: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (IOpera)

Michael Nyman’s chamber opera about a man with a curious neurological condition makes a rare appearance for its 40th anniversary.

March 19, 2026
Opera
Live Review

Review: The Pirates of Penzance (Victorian Opera)

The very model of a modern Gilbert & Sullivan production: nostalgic yet fresh and funny, with cast and orchestra on song.

February 2, 2026
Opera
Live Review

Review: Mansfield Park (Victorian Opera)

The chamber opera adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel makes its Melbourne debut with a cast in tune with their characters.

March 6, 2025
Opera
Live Review

Review: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Melbourne Opera)

The little company that could presents opera’s longest work in a vast space that proves surprisingly perfect.

February 17, 2025
Opera
features

Opera for All breaks down the barriers for a third year

The free, Opera Australia-produced, BMW-sponsored event is ready to make a few opera converts among the crowd, says soprano Olivia Cranwell.

January 24, 2025
News, Opera
news

Massive Meistersinger for Melbourne

Melbourne's UNESCO-listed Exhibition Building to host an ambitious, all-Australian staging of Wagner's "miracle of complex engineering".

December 20, 2024
Opera
Live Review

Review: Così fan tutte (State Opera South Australia)

Played for laughs, this modern production for modern times bubbles like a bottle of Prosecco.

August 30, 2024
Opera
features

New eyes and fresh angles on opera’s contrasting classics

There's a tendency to handle Mozart with kid gloves, says State Opera South Australia's Dane Lam, "But he could be a very dirty man!"

July 26, 2024
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: In Concert (Melbourne Bach Choir)

A thoughtfully curated program of choral music for those still hankering to extend the feel-good vibes of Easter.

April 23, 2024
Classical Music, Opera
features

Angels and Demons

In a world still grappling with science and scepticism, Richard Mills has written a opera about the man who got the ball rolling – Galileo.

November 20, 2023
Opera
Live Review

Review: The Gilt-Edged Kid/The Dictator (IOpera)

One-act political satires by George Dreyfus and Ernst Krenek delivered in thrilling style with every detail of tone and colour writ large.

July 24, 2023

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