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.

Superb performances by two last-minute jump-ins, their fellow cast members, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and the SSO under Simone Young make the most of Beethoven’s troubled piece.

Two recent chamber operas exploring difficult subjects make their Australian premieres.