Review: The Marriage of Figaro (Opera Australia)
A rich, confident revival helmed by strong performances.
A rich, confident revival helmed by strong performances.
Opera Australia brings Strindberg's strange, purgatorial world to the Scenery Workshop.
Director Greg Eldridge discusses how he’s coming to grips with Aribert Reimann’s Ghost Sonata, an operatic adaptation of a Strindberg play that’s all about the lies we tell ourselves in order to survive.
Though dramaturgically flawed, this adaptation of Peter Carey's beloved novel is full of daring and brilliance.
Ample talent on display, but the story needs more work to properly take off.
The Australian-Mauritian soprano will make her role debut as Violetta when La Traviata returns to Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour next year.
Once again it was Counting and Cracking's night as the epic new play from Belvoir and Co-Curious took home three more awards.
The company will bring back the Francesca Zambello production that launched Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour in 2012.
Ermonela Jaho talks about Anna Bolena, we learn the true story behind Come From Away, and Nico Muhly discusses his three Australian commissions.
As Ermonela Jaho prepares to take on Donizetti’s Three Queens, beginning with Anna Bolena, Justine Nguyen talks to the soprano about the role’s challenges and delves into the origins of the trilogy.
The enfant terrible of the Australian art scene is the subject of a new opera by Elena Kats-Chernin and Justin Fleming. They talk to Justine Nguyen about the challenges of translating this colourful, larger-than-life figure to the stage.
International theatrical phenomenon Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Belvoir's Counting and Cracking lead the way with eight nominations each.
The celebrated bass-baritone tells us about his forthcoming Australian concerts, his first cruise, his new opera roles, and why he won’t be bringing his Welsh Rugby Union jumper on his trip Down Under.