The company is to present a fully digital, 21st-century staging of Wagner’s epic tetralogy in Brisbane in 2020, directed by Chen Shi-Zheng.

Rossini’s rarely-performed opera was written for the coronation of a king, with all the excess that entails. Director Damiano Michieletto explains how he got to grips with an opera that’s more showpiece than drama, and why he had to set it in an art gallery.

The 90-year-old composer used a megaphone to air his long-held grievances about Opera Australia as the houselights went down.

The scholarship provides the Opera Australia Principal Artist the invaluable opportunity to travel overseas and further develop her international profile.

With a modest operating surplus of $342,667 (up from an operating deficit of $2.1 million the year before) the company’s bottom line was bolstered by a number of significant bequests.

Featuring Ute Lemper, requiems, Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims, ZOFO's new Pictures at an Exhibition, the Bolshoi Ballet and the AWO's Alexander Briger.

The first musical to be staged for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour surpassed ticket sales for 2015’s production of Aida.

The celebrated fashion designer, and arts patron, grew up in Italy listening to the garbage men singing arias. But it wasn’t until she moved to Australia that a life-long love for opera was kindled.

The young cast sure can dance, but lacks the dramatic chops to sell this dark tale.

Meistersinger takes out best Production in the Opera category while Beautiful: The Carole King Musical cleans up in Musical Theatre at this year’s Green Room Awards.

The bass was a student of Rosa Ponselle and a vocal coach for Opera Australia.

A traditional but superbly staged production that transcends the rain and some dated elements.