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.
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.
The MTC returns with a beautiful, surprisingly subtle take on Shakespeare’s comedy.
OQ's 2022 season features two newly commissioned works, a classic, a regional tour and the return of the Studio Series and the Festival of Outback Opera, with a strong focus on women.
Opera Queensland’s Eastern Promises recital for soprano and piano, performed by Alexandra Flood and Alex Raineri, offered an ambitious program of art song.
On the streets of suburban Brisbane this month, audiences will see ballet performances and classes, be enrapt in chamber music and listen to an array of sopranos as part of Brisbane Festival.
Virginia Gay brings us a new gender-flipped Cyrano de Bergerac on a program with three new Australian works, two Australian premieres and the postponed As You Like It.
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It was all go as this year’s 60th anniversary festival got underway with a series of compelling, contentious, provocative and exciting productions.
An operatic adaptation of Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves, a trio of choreographic responses to Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, and choral settings of all 150 psalms are amongst the highlights.
Six Australian plays, five of them new, a Tony Award-winning musical and contemporary writing from overseas – all relevant to today, says AD Brett Sheehy.
When Natalie Abbott was told she’d been cast as Muriel Heslop in the musical, she couldn’t believe it. She tells us about making her professional debut in her dream role.
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