The latest arts appointments and departures.

Suzanne Chaundy appointed to new role and charged with the oversight of Melbourne Opera's future development.

Mozart’s legendary libertine is back in this modest new production that can’t solve the opera’s misogyny but does justice to its timeless music.

Less is more in Suzanne Chaundy’s new production of a play about the Port Arthur massacre’s aftermath.

A new production of Saint-Saëns’s Old Testament tale respects tradition while refreshing it with sophisticated minimalist design.

The little company that could presents opera’s longest work in a vast space that proves surprisingly perfect.

We talk to director Suzanne Chaundy about creating "an absolute opera event" in an iconic UNESCO Heritage-listed venue.

Melbourne's UNESCO-listed Exhibition Building to host an ambitious, all-Australian staging of Wagner's "miracle of complex engineering".

The little company that could feeds Melbourne’s hungry opera lovers with an engaging new production of Donizetti’s bel canto classic.

Sopranos Helena Dix and Eleanor Greenwood are magnificent as rival queens in Donizetti’s Tudor tragedy.

The big finish to Wagner's monumental Ring cycle is musically and dramatically strong, engaging and a feather in Melbourne Opera's cap.

The problem child third opera in Wagner’s Ring tetralogy, Siegfried is dominated by male voices but women save the day.