Under Patrick Nolan's leadership, 2025 is shaping up to be another step in OQ's evolution as a force on the international arts scene.

Rusalka is a potent reminder that opera is a hybrid beast with real power to engage and sometimes overwhelm.

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This month, West Australian Opera unveils a brand-new, all-Australian production of Rusalka. We talk to the creatives staging it.

The 'age-quake' shaking up dance; Dvořák’s opera Rusalka; the connections between poetry and music; plus Marina Prior, Xavier de Maistre and Olivier Latry feature this month.

The 'age-quake' shaking up dance; Dvořák’s opera Rusalka; the connections between poetry and music; plus Marina Prior, Xavier de Maistre and Olivier Latry feature this month.

This new take on Puccini’s classic combines visual chic and grittiness in a visually impressive and emotionally moving production.

The lineup includes Carmen in the WACA, Sondheim's Into the Woods, a new Bohème and a world premiere by Lachlan Skipworth, with a new work in the Noongar language scheduled for 2024.

Conductor Asher Fisch led more like a general heedless of his own safety in this magnificent reading of one of the 20th century’s most profound compositions.

Tchaikovsky's final opera gets a clever and thoughtful reworking that gave Iolanta the chance to tell her own story.

The Western Australian soprano discusses her role in WA Opera's Iolanta, which centres the lived experience of the blind and vision impaired community, and the language challenges inherent in opera.

The West Australian Orchestra, conductor Asher Fisch and soloists Elena Perroni and Adrian Tamburini navigated Brahms' German Requiem beautifully.