Category: Opera

AAR Jacqueline Dark as Herodias and Lise Lindstrom as Salome in Opera Australia's 2019 production of Salome at the Sydney Opera House - photo by Prudence Upton

Salome

March 11 - Latest Reviews, Opera, Performance
It may be 114 years old but the Richard Strauss opera, Salome, has lost none of its ability to shock and unsettle, particularly as presented here in Gale Edwards extraordinarily visceral production. Brian Thomson’s setti...
Opera Australia Werther Michael Fabiano - photo by Prudence Upton

Werther

February 25 - Opera, Performance
Celebrated international tenor Michael Fabiano will make his role debut as the titular role in Elijah Moshinsky’s contemporary production of Werther, when he returns to the Sydney Opera House this summer. In the ultimate...
Victorian Opera Parsifal - photo by Pier Carthew

Parsifal

February 16 - Opera, Performance
Premiering the state’s first staged production of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal will prove Victorian Opera’s biggest undertaking yet as a cast of 83 singers and 75 musicians take over St Kilda’s Palais Theatre for three perf...
Opera Australia Wozzeck - photo by Keith Saunders

Wozzeck

February 5 - Latest Reviews, Opera
William Kentridge’s stunning interpretation of Alban Berg’s 1925 expressionist opera Wozzeck, with his desolate charcoal animations superimposed over a huge rough wooden setting, caused a sensation when it was first seen...
Melbourne Opera Lee Abrahmsen as Elizabeth in Tannhauser

The Flying Dutchman

February 3 - Opera, Performance
Following the critical and public success of Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, and Tristan and Isolde, Melbourne Opera is once again turning its attention to Wagner’s rich repertoire staging the The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende H...
OA 19 Turandot - photo by Keith Saunders

Turandot

January 21 - Latest Reviews, Opera
It may be nearly thirty years old but Graeme Murphy’s mesmerizing staging of Puccini’s last opera, remains a jewel in Opera Australia’s current repertoire. From the very first moments when huge fans open to reveal Murphy...