Cameron Menzies and the Age of Aquarius
The versatile director discusses his touring production of Hair, opening tonight, The Selfish Giant for VO, and a new song cycle.
The versatile director discusses his touring production of Hair, opening tonight, The Selfish Giant for VO, and a new song cycle.
Its innovative livestreaming program, which introduces primary school students to opera, returns this month.
The Australian bass-baritone receives a $70,000 scholarship to study at the leading music school in September.
Not only the celebration of a remarkable life, but a celebration of human life with music at its heart.
A musically excellent, perceptively designed and directed production of Wagner’s final opera.
The stars of Victorian Opera’s upcoming production of Parsifal talk the holy fool and the wandering Jew.
He is regularly reviled as something of a monster, but as Michael Scott Rohan finds out, a closer look at Richard Wagner – and in particular his music – reveals a more genial side to the German composer.
With the year drawing to a close, we look back over the operas that wowed our critics in 2018.
This new commission gives an old story an entertaining makeover with style-hopping music, comedy and feminist attitude.
The soprano, who dropped the double bass for singing lessons as a teenager, talks about Puccini’s heroines, her multifaceted career, and her upcoming star turn as a mermaid.
Wagner’s magnum opus is seen in a new production with an enviable cast, A Little Night Music hits the stage, and Jessica Pratt returns with star mezzo Daniela Barcellona in tow.
Making her anticipated Victorian Opera debut as Debussy’s enigmatic heroine, high-flying soprano Siobhan Stagg relishes the challenge of unravelling her character’s many contradictions.
Jessica Pratt and Caitlin Hulcup lead Victorian Opera’s fourth and final Bellini opera in concert with vocal and dramatic flair.