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Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: poem for a dried up river (Sydney Chamber Opera, Sydney Festival)

Jane Sheldon gives a gripping performance in a work that resonates powerfully with the climate crisis.

January 7, 2021
Classical Music, Dance, Theatre
news

Create NSW multi-year funding recipients announced

Four Winds, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Gondwana Choirs and Sydney Chamber Opera are among the 58 small to medium arts organisations who will receive funding for up to four years.

July 30, 2020
Opera
Live Review

Review: Breaking Glass (Sydney Chamber Opera)

Tonight's online premiere of four short operas by four Australian women composers is a major achievement for Australia's most inspirational modern opera company.

April 25, 2020
Classical Music, Opera
Live Review

Review: Oscar and Lucinda (Sydney Chamber Opera)

Though dramaturgically flawed, this adaptation of Peter Carey's beloved novel is full of daring and brilliance.

July 29, 2019
Opera
features

Oscar and Lucinda: Crafting a Kaleidoscope

Conductor and Artistic Director of Sydney Chamber Opera Jack Symonds discusses Elliott Gyger’s new opera, an adaptation of the beloved Peter Carey novel Oscar and Lucinda.

July 17, 2019
Classical Music, Opera
Live Review

Review: La Passion de Simone (Sydney Chamber Opera, Sydney Festival)

Australians make a strong case for Saariaho’s well-travelled oratorio, but can’t entirely overcome the work's curiously dissatisfying nature.

January 10, 2019
Opera
Live Review

Review: The Rape of Lucretia (VO & TSO for Dark Mofo)

Gender-swap aside, this is an important, deeply moving opera at a time when we need to continue these conversations.

June 18, 2018
Opera
Live Review

Review: The Howling Girls (Sydney Chamber Opera)

Damien Ricketson and Adena Jacobs' The Howling Girls is an immersive, dream-like exploration of trauma and voice.

March 29, 2018
Classical Music, Opera
features

The Howling Girls: staging an opera without words

Director Adena Jacobs talks about her latest project for Sydney Chamber Opera and the haunting story of trauma from which it grew.

March 27, 2018
Classical Music, Opera
Live Review

Review: The Rape of Lucretia (Sydney Chamber Opera, Victorian Opera)

Anna Dowsley stuns as Lucretia in Kip Williams' deconstructed Britten.

August 20, 2017
Classical Music, Opera
Live Review

Review: Cunning Little Vixen (Victorian Opera)

A cunning and colourful response to Janáček’s extraordinary score.

June 23, 2017
Classical Music, Opera
Live Review

Review: Notes from Underground (Sydney Chamber Opera)

Jack Symonds’ smart score renders Dostoyevsky intelligible for the 21st century.

August 14, 2016
Classical Music, Opera
features

A Passion for the Mythic

Sydney Chamber Opera AD Jack Symonds explores Pascal Dusapin's total fusion of past and present.

December 29, 2015

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