Obsessed with The Drover’s Wife as a child, Leah Purcell has adapted it as a play, novel and film. Then composer George Palmer asked if she would collaborate on an opera.

The very model of a modern Gilbert & Sullivan production: nostalgic yet fresh and funny, with cast and orchestra on song.

OQ's 2026 season features a hotly-anticipated Queensland premiere, the return of a 2025 success and a sparkling new production of a Broadway classic.

Bohème again – but this staging slays with stunning performances and design.

Creating Opera Australia's 2026 season without an artistic director has been a galvanising challenge, "a real team effort".

Featuring 21 world premieres, the 2025 Brisbane Festival promises "a world-class event with a fiercely local heart".

SXS sparkle with a scintillating world premiere in an eclectic jubilee concert of jazz, opera and First Nations music.

In the elemental surroundings, Korean star Sumi Jo steals the show with a performance that takes root in the memory.

A fine operatic metaphor for the transience and troubles of modern life, but Flight's rhyming libretto reduces uplift.

Soprano Nina Korbe is doubly proud to be singing under the vast skies of western Queensland. “Being on my traditional land, I asked myself: what songs and sounds do I want to offer as a gift?"

Four new programs and the chance to vote for your favourite works for piano in 2025.

A top-shelf cast ensues little is lost in a stripped-back staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's rollicking melodrama.