Voyage to the Moon
Victorian Opera launches its 2016 Season with a vivid re-imagining of the Baroque in Voyage to the Moon, a new co-production with Musica Viva at the Melbourne Recital Centre until 19 February 2016, before touring nationa...
Category: Opera
It’s TV! It’s opera! What to make of ABC’s The Divor...
Billed as a “television opera” by the ABC, The Divorce had its first of four episodes broadcast on Monday night. A co-production with Opera Australia, it signals a desire to broaden the appeal of this supposedly most eli...
The Elixir of Love
Take an Italian opera and set it in the Australian outback in 1915, and the result is a witty and fun rendition of some of Donizetti’s most glorious music at Arts Centre Melbourne from 21 November 2015. A lovesick lad, a...
The Marriage of Figaro
Billed as the Downton Abbey of opera but way more fun, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro continues to entertain today as it has done for centuries, at Arts Centre Melbourne until 28 November 2015. Masters lusting over serv...
2015 Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship Concert
The Opera Foundation for young Australians will present a public recital of the six finalists vying for the 2015 Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship at the Verbrugghen Hall of Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Sunday 1 Nov...
Fly Away Peter
Making their Melbourne debut, the acclaimed Sydney Chamber Opera brings David Malouf’s classic novel, Fly Away Peter to Arts Centre Melbourne in three shows from 21 – 24 October as part of the 2015 Melbourne Festiv...
IFAC Australian Singing Competition
In late August, ten outstanding opera and classical singers sang their hearts out to be selected as one of five finalists who will compete in Australasia’s premier showcase for young singers – the IFAC Australian Singing...
National Opera Review discussion paper released for comment
In a major review of Australian opera, the National Opera Review was commissioned by the Government to consider the financial viability, artistic vibrancy and audience access of Opera Australia, Opera Queensland, State O...
