Category: Opera

OA Don Quichotte Warwick Fyfe - photo by Prudence Upton

Don Quichotte

March 19 - Latest Reviews, Opera, Performance
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,...
OA Don Quichotte - photo courtesy Opera Australia, San Diego Opera and Ken Howard

Don Quichotte

March 13 - Opera, Performance
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...
Opera Australia's 2018 production of The Nose at the Sydney Opera House - photo by Prudence Upton

The Nose

February 26 - Latest Reviews, Opera
“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...
OA La Traviata

La Traviata

February 23 - Opera, Performance
Award-winning Australian soprano, Nicole Car will make a triumphant return to the Sydney Opera House this March to make her debut in the title role of Violetta Valéry in Verdi’s iconic La Traviata. Nicole has firmly esta...
Martin Winkler as Kovalev in The Royal Opera House’s 2017 production of The Nose

The Nose

February 16 - Opera, Performance
The Australian premiere of Barrie Kosky’s new production of the rarely performed Shostakovich classic The Nose has become the most highly anticipated production of Opera Australia’s Sydney Summer Season following its cri...
OA Carmen - courtesy of Opera Australia

Carmen

February 8 - Opera, Performance
After a sell-out season in 2016, John Bell’s vibrant production of Bizet’s Carmen, featuring gypsy girls and bull-fighting boys in eye-popping colours, returns to the Sydney Opera House this weekend. Tackling the gritty ...
Neal Cooper as Tristan and Lee Abrahmsen as Isolde - photo by Jodie Hutchinson

Tristan and Isolde

January 31 - Opera, Performance
Following the great critical and public success of Tannhäuser and Lohengrin, Melbourne Opera is once again turning its attention to Wagner’s rich repertoire. From 2-10 February, the company will stage the dramatic and pa...