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Dance, News
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Vale Garth Welch, pioneering Australian dancer and choreographer

Invited by Dame Peggy van Praagh to be a Principal with the newly formed Australian Ballet in 1962, Welch was central to the company’s formative repertoire.

September 2, 2025
Opera
Live Review

Review: Dido and Aeneas (Opera Queensland & Circa)

Restoring the mythic nature of Virgil’s epic to Purcell's Baroque masterpiece, Yaron Lifschitz sets a new benchmark for opera production in Australia.

July 15, 2024
Dance, Festivals, Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Opera, Stage, Theatre
news

2022 Green Room Awards announced

The Wedding Singer swept the musical theatre categories as the Green Room Awards recognised productions throughout the last two years.

July 12, 2022
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
Opera
Live Review

Review: Turandot (Opera Australia)

Australian soprano Anna-Louise Cole has just made her role debut as Turandot for OA – and what an impressive performance it was.

February 14, 2022
Opera
Live Review

Review: Turandot (Opera Australia)

This fine OA production of Puccini's opera is a cracking night out, and a perfect antidote to these dark, pestilence-filled days.

January 14, 2022
Dance
Live Review

Review: State (West Australian Ballet)

The West Australian Ballet’s triple bill State is a program of wit, humour, inventiveness, beauty, first-rate choreographic drive and passion, and sheer entertainment.

June 25, 2021
Dance
news

David McAllister honoured with a coveted international award

The former dancer and Artistic Director of The Australian Ballet was surprised at a gala lunch when he was presented with the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award.

April 29, 2021
Supported by City of Sydney

Review: The Merry Widow (Opera Australia)

Julie Lea Goodwin is gorgeous as the merry widow Hanna Glavari, and perfectly supported by Alexander Lewis as Danilo Danilovich.

January 6, 2021
Classical Music, Opera
news

Opera Australia announces its 2021 Sydney summer season

OA is announcing its 2021 program in stages. This first season includes Ernani, Bluebeard's Castle, The Merry Widow and Tosca. Lyndon Terracini also addresses the company restructure and redundancies.

November 5, 2020
Dance
news

West Australian Ballet announces its 2021 season

The program includes three classic ballets, an excerpt from Graeme Murphy's Air and Other Invisible Forces, and a new contemporary piece by Melanie Lane.

October 22, 2020
Dance
Live Review

Review: The Happy Prince (The Australian Ballet)

Graeme Murphy's new ballet is an imaginative feast for the eyes, igniting the senses, but it doesn't sustain emotional engagement.

February 26, 2020
Dance
Live Review

Review: Ballet at the Quarry: Light and Shadow (West Australian Ballet)

This triple bill showed off all the qualities of the company and then some.

February 10, 2020

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