Lohengrin
You know it’s a good show when you leave the theatre and suddenly become aware of how weary you feel. You check the time and can’t work out where a smidge over four hours went, but then you remember: Wagner. Richard Wagn...
Category: Opera
Parsifal
Hailed as the greatest tenor of our time, Jonas Kaufmann returns to Sydney this month to make his Australian operatic debut for Opera Australia, performing the title role in a concert presentation of Wagner’s Parsifal. T...
Melbourne Opera returns to the Regent Theatre with Lohengrin
Following the great critical and public success of Tannhäuser last year, Melbourne Opera is returning to the Regent Theatre to stage a new production of Richard Wagner’s magnificent romantic opera Lohengrin, for th...
The Marriage of Figaro hits the road
Following the adventures of a household over one crazy day, Opera Australia presents a new production of Mozart’s brilliant opera, The Marriage of Figaro in a regional tour to Western Australia, Northern Territory ...
La Bohème announced as 2018 Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour
Continuing its hugely successful Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour series, Opera Australia has announced a new three-year agreement with Destination NSW – commencing in 2018 with Puccini’s much-loved La Bohème. With it...
Cunning Little Vixen
The forest comes alive in Victorian Opera’s new production of Leoš Janácek’s Cunning Little Vixen. One of the great masterpieces of early twentieth century music, this rarely-heard opera will be staged for five performan...
Opera Australia’s 60th anniversary costume and memorabilia exhibition ...
Opera Australia is diving into sixty years of costumes, accessories, artworks and memorabilia in an anniversary exhibition at The Opera Centre in Surry Hills. The week-long event will culminate in an auction where the pu...
The Nixon Tapes
John Adams, Bryce Dessner, and Jonny Greenwood are living composers with something to say – especially when given an orchestra and a few superhuman voices to say it with – this is an extraordinary era for mus...
