Review: Serse (Lyric Opera of Melbourne)
Sally-Anne Russell interprets the title role in Handel’s fictional romp about Persian king Xerxes.
Sally-Anne Russell interprets the title role in Handel’s fictional romp about Persian king Xerxes.
Splendid singing by Helena Dix, Rosario La Spina and Christopher Hillier compensates for a potboiler plot.
Michael Nyman’s chamber opera about a man with a curious neurological condition makes a rare appearance for its 40th anniversary.
The very model of a modern Gilbert & Sullivan production: nostalgic yet fresh and funny, with cast and orchestra on song.
The chamber opera adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel makes its Melbourne debut with a cast in tune with their characters.
The little company that could presents opera’s longest work in a vast space that proves surprisingly perfect.
The free, Opera Australia-produced, BMW-sponsored event is ready to make a few opera converts among the crowd, says soprano Olivia Cranwell.
Melbourne's UNESCO-listed Exhibition Building to host an ambitious, all-Australian staging of Wagner's "miracle of complex engineering".
Played for laughs, this modern production for modern times bubbles like a bottle of Prosecco.
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!"
A thoughtfully curated program of choral music for those still hankering to extend the feel-good vibes of Easter.
In a world still grappling with science and scepticism, Richard Mills has written a opera about the man who got the ball rolling – Galileo.
One-act political satires by George Dreyfus and Ernst Krenek delivered in thrilling style with every detail of tone and colour writ large.