Rusalka is a potent reminder that opera is a hybrid beast with real power to engage and sometimes overwhelm.

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This month, West Australian Opera unveils a brand-new, all-Australian production of Rusalka. We talk to the creatives staging it.

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

The 'age-quake' shaking up dance; Dvořák’s opera Rusalka; the connections between poetry and music; plus Marina Prior, Xavier de Maistre and Olivier Latry feature this month.

The 'age-quake' shaking up dance; Dvořák’s opera Rusalka; the connections between poetry and music; plus Marina Prior, Xavier de Maistre and Olivier Latry feature this month.

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

An impressive Prudence Sanders in various incarnations of historical and mythical heroines including Cleopatra, Armida and Euridice.

Perth Festival's in-concert staging is a reminder of the pleasures of immersion in the orchestral world of an opera.

All the elements of grand opera are here in Wundig wer Wilura: love and war, trust and betrayal, intimacy and the sublime.

Sometimes, says opera director Matt Reuben James Ward, it's the little things that count when building a bridge from the mythic past to the present day.

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