Lucia di Lammermoor
With its dramatic intensity and heartbreaking music, Lucia di Lammermoor has remained one of the most iconic operas since its premiere in 1835. Featuring Soprano Jessica Pratt in the title role, Victorian Opera presents ...
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Banquet of Secrets
In the world premiere of a new musical devised by Australian TV icon Steve Vizard and legendary jazz musician Paul Grabowsky, Banquet of Secrets, four friends unite for their annual dinner and secrets are spilled in a ce...
Another Other
Based on a radical re-reading of Ingmar Bergman’s film Persona, Chamber Made Opera presents the Melbourne premiere season of Another Other at the Meat Market from 18 February 2016. Fusing experimental opera, expanded cin...
Voyage to the Moon
Victorian Opera launches its 2016 Season with a vivid re-imagining of the Baroque in Voyage to the Moon, a new co-production with Musica Viva at the Melbourne Recital Centre until 19 February 2016, before touring nationa...
It’s TV! It’s opera! What to make of ABC’s The Divor...
Billed as a “television opera” by the ABC, The Divorce had its first of four episodes broadcast on Monday night. A co-production with Opera Australia, it signals a desire to broaden the appeal of this supposedly most eli...
The Elixir of Love
Take an Italian opera and set it in the Australian outback in 1915, and the result is a witty and fun rendition of some of Donizetti’s most glorious music at Arts Centre Melbourne from 21 November 2015. A lovesick lad, a...
The Marriage of Figaro
Billed as the Downton Abbey of opera but way more fun, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro continues to entertain today as it has done for centuries, at Arts Centre Melbourne until 28 November 2015. Masters lusting over serv...
2015 Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship Concert
The Opera Foundation for young Australians will present a public recital of the six finalists vying for the 2015 Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship at the Verbrugghen Hall of Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Sunday 1 Nov...
