Category: Opera

OA Luisa Miller

Luisa Miller

May 12 - Opera, Performance
Verdi’s rare gem Luisa Miller will have its first full professional production in Victoria in over 150 years, with Melbournian Nicole Car in the title role, at Arts Centre Melbourne from 16 May 2016. Co-produced with Opé...
OA The Pearlfishers Emma Matthews photo by Jeff Busby

The Pearlfishers

May 7 - Opera, Performance
Painting a picture of paradise, of golden sands and colourful silks, Opera Australia’s new production of The Pearlfishers at Arts Centre Melbourne offers audiences a chance to hear Bizet’s passionate music in a new...
SOSA Cloudstreet

Cloudstreet

May 6 - Opera, Performance
First an iconic novel by Tim Winton, then a play, followed by a critically acclaimed miniseries, now Cloudstreet will receive the operatic treatment it so deserves, in a world premiere season at Adelaide’s Her Maje...
OA La Boheme

La Bohème

April 28 - Opera, Performance
Nearly 120 years after Puccini wrote La Bohéme, it remains one of the world’s most favourite operas, now Opera Australia (OA) returns to Melbourne’s State Theatre from 3 May 2016, with the first of three production...
VO Jessica Pratt Lucia di Lammermoor Teatro La Fenice Venice photo by Michelle Crosera

Lucia di Lammermoor

April 8 - Opera, Performance
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 ...
Victorian Opera Banquet of Secrets photo by Chalrie Kinross

Banquet of Secrets

February 29 - Opera, Performance
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...
Chamber Made Opera Another Other photo by Nina Gilbert

Another Other

February 17 - Opera, Performance
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...