Tosca
John Bell’s critically acclaimed 20th century retelling of Puccini’s Tosca has returned to Arts Centre Melbourne with a stellar cast – featuring some of the best performers in the world in a production that calls f...
Category: Opera
La Traviata set to enchant Arts Centre Melbourne’s State Theatre...
American powerhouse soprano Corinne Winters will make her Australian debut in Melbourne this week in the classic role of Violetta Valéry in La Traviata. A recent nominee in the International Opera Awards Young Singer cat...
Jessica Pratt to sing first Lucia at New York’s The Metropolitan Opera...
A decade after launching her career in Italy, acclaimed Australian coloratura soprano Jessica Pratt delivers her first performances in the title role of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at New York’s The Metropolitan Oper...
Les Mamelles de Tirésias
Lyric Opera of Melbourne have opened their 2018 season at Chapel Off Chapel with Francis Poulenc’s wacky comedy Les Mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tirésias). In what must be the craziest opera to ever take to the s...
Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour – La Boheme
1968 was an eventful year. An exhibition currently on show at the National Library of Australia commemorates the 50th Anniversary of when the Library opened its doors to the public in 1968. It was the same year in which ...
Don Quichotte
Disaster was averted at the premiere of Opera Australia’s much anticipated production of Massenet’s Don Quichotte, when guest artist, Ferruccio Furlanetto, considered the supreme interpreter of the role of Don Quichotte,...
Don Quichotte
No case for mistaken identity – legendary Don Quichotte, Ferruccio Furlanetto, brings his signature role to Australia for the first time at the Joan Sutherland Theatre – Sydney Opera House from 16 March 2018...
The Nose
“Why would anyone write an opera about a nose?” asked the Presenter (Antoinette Halloran) towards the conclusion of the performance. Well, Dmitri Shostakovich did. He wrote an opera called The Nose in 1927, when he was o...
