Carmen
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 ...
Category: Opera
Tristan and Isolde
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...
Opera Australia’s new Merry Widow breaks ticket sales record!
Opera Australia’s new production of Lehàr’s original ‘rom-com’ The Merry Widow has become the highest selling of this popular show in the company’s history at the Sydney Opera House, with more than 26 000 tickets already...
The Merry Widow
There are many reasons to celebrate this magnificent production of a wonderful old warhorse which still manages to enchant more than 100 years after its first performance. Not the least is the opportunity it affords to e...
Coronation of Poppea
Celebrating 450 years since the birth of Monteverdi, Pinchgut Opera presents one of the greatest operas of all time, Coronation of Poppea, at Sydney’s City Recital Hall from 30 November 2017. Set in the decadent co...
Mazda Opera in the Bowl returns to Melbourne
Launching in 2007, Opera Australia’s hugely popular concert (now known as) Mazda Opera in the Bowl returns to Melbourne on Saturday 2 December with a stellar line up of Australia’s finest opera singers and musical talent...
Roberto Devereux
Melbourne Opera’s production of Roberto Devereux is a masterpiece. Their superb storytelling is made all the more exceptional through the deformation and violation of what you might consider traditional operatic singing....
The Merry Widow
Melbourne-born international opera star Danielle de Niese will make a triumphant return to her hometown to perform in Franz Lehár’s charming operetta The Merry Widow at Arts Centre Melbourne from 15 November 2017. ...