Editor's Choice Event Series Candide

Victorian Opera: Candide

Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Leonard Bernstein’s dazzling score makes up for a convoluted plot that went through more incarnations than Doctor Who (despite a brilliant patchwork of lyrics by the likes of Stephen Sondheim, Lillian Hellman and Dorothy Parker). Voltaire’s tale of lost innocence and the painful realisation that all may not be for…
Editor's Choice Event Series Candide

Victorian Opera: Candide

Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Leonard Bernstein’s dazzling score makes up for a convoluted plot that went through more incarnations than Doctor Who (despite a brilliant patchwork of lyrics by the likes of Stephen Sondheim, Lillian Hellman and Dorothy Parker). Voltaire’s tale of lost innocence and the painful realisation that all may not be for…
Editor's Choice Event Series Candide

Victorian Opera: Candide

Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Leonard Bernstein’s dazzling score makes up for a convoluted plot that went through more incarnations than Doctor Who (despite a brilliant patchwork of lyrics by the likes of Stephen Sondheim, Lillian Hellman and Dorothy Parker). Voltaire’s tale of lost innocence and the painful realisation that all may not be for…

Editor's Choice Event Series Galileo

Victorian Opera: Galileo

Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Richard Mills signs off after 10 years at the helm of Victorian Opera conducting his brand-new opera exploring the life and times of the Renaissance polymath Galileo Galilei. Born the son of a famous Florentine lutenist, Galileo developed the telescope, discovered the moons of Jupiter and was involved in various cutting-edge scientific and astronomical theories until falling foul of the Catholic Church and forced to…