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Pinchgut’s The First Murder is a tender and devastating triumph

Pinchgut Opera | The First Murder May 23, 2026, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, NSW Pinchgut’s invitation was simple and rather bold: “To understand the world we live in, let’s […]

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O|A’s Melbourne Traviata a lavish, emotionally charged triumph

Opera Australia | La Traviata 9 May, 2026, Regent Theatre, Melbourne, VIC Honouring Our ‘Fallen Woman’ The Occasion As the tentacles of Autumn reached into Melbourne’s heartland on this chilly […]

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Chamber version of Das Rheingold a resounding success

Shaumet Music | Das Rheingold, arr. Jonathan Dove and Graham Vick 24 April, 2026, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Artistic Directors: Anke Hoeppner-Ryan, Barry Ryan Music Director & Conductor: Toby […]

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Lauren Fagan’s Tatyana an emotional tour de force in OA’s Eugene Onegin

Opera Australia | Eugene Onegin March 17, 2026, Sydney Opera House Conductor Anna Skryleva If you love opera and have not seen/heard Eugene Onegin then this production is surely a […]

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O|A’s Hänsel & Gretel vibrant and alive

Opera Australia | Hänsel & Gretel 27 January 2026, Sydney Opera House, NSW After a long absence, Opera Australia revived the 1992 Elijah Moshinsky production of Hänsel & Gretel. It […]

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Opera Australia’s fresh new Turandot a must see!

Turandot | Opera Australia 15 January 2026, Sydney Opera House, NSW There’s been quite a bit of buzz around this new production of Turandot, and that’s not surprising as it […]

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A Luminous Butterfly Opens Opera Australia’s 70th Year

Opera Australia | Madama Butterfly 3 January 2026, Sydney Opera House, NSW Opera Australia opened its 70th anniversary year with a confident, crowd-pleasing return to Madama Butterfly, presenting a production […]

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A memorable night with Endangered Productions’ Bernstein and Busoni

Endangered Productions | Bernstein and Busoni 28 November – 7 December | Eternity Playhouse, Darlinghurst Artistic director Christine Logan says, ‘Endangered Productions cherry-picks often little-known musical gems and reworks them […]

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A wealth of artistry to savour in OA’s Orpheus and Eurydice

Opera Australia | Orpheus and Eurydice December 2, 2025, Regent Theatre, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion On December 2nd, as Melbourne ushered in a brisk and wintry start to the festive […]

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SSO’s Siegfried in Concert: Six Fearless Hours in the Ring – WOW!

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Simone Young conducts Wagner’s Siegfried Sydney Opera House, November 2025 SIMONE YOUNG conductor SIMON O’NEILL Siegfried MIINA-LIISA VÄRELÄ Brünnhilde GERHARD SIEGEL Mime WOLFGANG KOCH Wanderer WARWICK […]

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New album ‘Undead’ presents arias – unapologetic, unafraid, totally living

Jessica O’Donoghue and Jack Symonds | ‘Undead’ album launch November 7, 2025, The Church, Alexandria, NSW Opera isn’t dead. It isn’t even sleeping. It’s right in front of us in […]

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VO’s Katya Kabanova – a masterpiece of opera

Victorian Opera | Katya Kabanova October 14, 2025, Palais Theatre, St Kilda, VIC Leoš Janáček’s masterpiece Katya Kabanova tells the unhappy story of Katya, a woman trapped in a miserable […]

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Exile and Empire, Then and Now: The Cooperative’s Nabucco

The Cooperative | Verdi’s Nabucco 30 August 2025, Pitt Street Uniting Church, Sydney, NSW Conductor: Toby Wong Director: Menila Moineaux Cast Nabucco: Tristan Entwistle Abigaille: Livia Brash Young Abigaille: Violet Rose Olds […]

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VO’s Abduction fresh, cheeky and wonderfully entertaining

Victorian Opera | Mozart’s Abduction 12 August 2025, Palais Theatre, St Kilda, VIC There was something fresh, cheeky and wonderfully entertaining about the Victorian Opera’s sensual and saucy production of […]

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Flights, Feathers and Fanfares: Pinchgut’s Fairy Queen Soars

Pinchgut Opera | The Fairy Queen 7 June, 2025, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, NSW Wow! Pinchgut does it again… From the first downbeat to the final shimmering chord, The […]

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ABO on fire with Samuel Mariño!

Samuel Mariño and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | The sopranista returns 22 Februrary, 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney NSW Venezuelan sopranista Samuel Mariño is back in Australia, and don’t we […]

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Impressive performances from Forest Collective in a wonderfully creepy Labyrinth

Forest Collective | Labyrinth February 4, 2025 Abbotsford Convent, VIC The Minotaur always struck me as a sad figure of Greek mythology. Alone, confused, unloved, ostracised from family and eventually […]

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Follies a hit! What a star-studded line up!

Victorian Opera | Follies Feb 1, 2025, Palais Theatre St Kilda, VIC It’s been a long wait for lovers of Stephen Sondheim to finally see a fully staged production of […]

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Pepe Newton

Pinchgut’s The First Murder is a tender and devastating triumph

Pinchgut Opera | The First Murder May 23, 2026, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, NSW Pinchgut’s invitation was simple and rather bold: “To understand the world we live in, let’s return to where it began.” In The First Murder, that beginning was not a exactly the Garden of Eden, but a scrubby Aussie beach campsite: sand, rocks, flannel flowers, an

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Warren Wills

O|A’s Melbourne Traviata a lavish, emotionally charged triumph

Opera Australia | La Traviata 9 May, 2026, Regent Theatre, Melbourne, VIC Honouring Our ‘Fallen Woman’ The Occasion As the tentacles of Autumn reached into Melbourne’s heartland on this chilly Saturday night, it was off to the mighty Regent Theatre in search of the Fallen Woman. Somewhat ironic as the next morning the gentle menfolk of urban and rural Oz

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Daniel Kaan

Chamber version of Das Rheingold a resounding success

Shaumet Music |  Das Rheingold, arr. Jonathan Dove and Graham Vick 24 April, 2026, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Artistic Directors: Anke Hoeppner-Ryan, Barry Ryan Music Director & Conductor: Toby Wong Shaumet Chamber Orchestra Cast: Wotan: Shane Lowrencev Alberich: Simon Lobelson Loge: Raphael Hudson Fricka: Livia Brash Donner: Bernard Leong-Lokman Freia: Aleta Shang Erda: Jill Sullivan Fasolt: Tristan Entwistle Fafner:

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Alan Holley

Lauren Fagan’s Tatyana an emotional tour de force in OA’s Eugene Onegin

Opera Australia | Eugene Onegin March 17, 2026, Sydney Opera House Conductor Anna Skryleva If you love opera and have not seen/heard Eugene Onegin then this production is surely a great introduction. One of the great things about Tchaikovsky’s operatic writing is his mastery of orchestration and his grand romantic gestures that create orchestral music in the opera that greatly

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Daniel Kaan

O|A’s Hänsel & Gretel vibrant and alive

Opera Australia | Hänsel & Gretel 27 January 2026, Sydney Opera House, NSW After a long absence, Opera Australia revived the 1992 Elijah Moshinsky production of Hänsel & Gretel. It is sung in English with surtitles. I was particularly interested in seeing this revival because my daughter, who was 10 at the time, was in the children’s chorus in the

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Pepe Newton

Opera Australia’s fresh new Turandot a must see!

Turandot | Opera Australia 15 January 2026, Sydney Opera House, NSW There’s been quite a bit of buzz around this new production of Turandot, and that’s not surprising as it arrives 35 years after its last new staging at the Sydney Opera House, and in the 100th anniversary year of Puccini’s final opera. It’s a complete re-imagining of the work,

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Pepe Newton

A Luminous Butterfly Opens Opera Australia’s 70th Year

Opera Australia | Madama Butterfly 3 January 2026, Sydney Opera House, NSW Opera Australia opened its 70th anniversary year with a confident, crowd-pleasing return to Madama Butterfly, presenting a production that wears its history proudly while speaking clearly to the present. Opening night at the Sydney Opera House carried extra charge: it was announced that the principal Pinkerton had had

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Richard Wong

A memorable night with Endangered Productions’ Bernstein and Busoni

Endangered Productions | Bernstein and Busoni 28 November – 7 December | Eternity Playhouse, Darlinghurst Artistic director Christine Logan says, ‘Endangered Productions cherry-picks often little-known musical gems and reworks them for a modern audience in intimate settings. (It is) a double operatic bill not to be missed.’ We stepped into 18th-century Bergamo (Italy) for a whirlwind of witty, mischievous, scathing

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Warren Wills

A wealth of artistry to savour in OA’s Orpheus and Eurydice

Opera Australia | Orpheus and Eurydice December 2, 2025, Regent Theatre, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion On December 2nd, as Melbourne ushered in a brisk and wintry start to the festive season, the city’s beloved citadel of West End–style splendour, the Regent Theatre, opened a portal into the underworld. Audiences were invited to peer across the River Styx and witness the

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Pepe Newton

SSO’s Siegfried in Concert: Six Fearless Hours in the Ring – WOW!

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Simone Young conducts Wagner’s Siegfried Sydney Opera House, November 2025 SIMONE YOUNG conductor SIMON O’NEILL Siegfried MIINA-LIISA VÄRELÄ Brünnhilde GERHARD SIEGEL Mime WOLFGANG KOCH Wanderer WARWICK FYFE Alberich TEDDY TAHU RHODES Fafner SAMANTHA CLARKE Waldvogel NOA BEINART Erda Confession: I didn’t mean to become a Ring Cycle person. Last year, I stumbled into the Die Walküre

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Pepe Newton

New album ‘Undead’ presents arias – unapologetic, unafraid, totally living

Jessica O’Donoghue and Jack Symonds | ‘Undead’ album launch November 7, 2025, The Church, Alexandria, NSW Opera isn’t dead. It isn’t even sleeping. It’s right in front of us in tiger-striped elbow length gloves, thigh-high silver stiletto boots, a plunging neckline and a voice that could summon gods (or ghosts) depending on the need I guess. This was Undead: the

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Daniel Brace

VO’s Katya Kabanova – a masterpiece of opera

Victorian Opera | Katya Kabanova October 14, 2025, Palais Theatre,  St Kilda, VIC Leoš Janáček’s masterpiece Katya Kabanova tells the unhappy story of Katya, a woman trapped in a  miserable marriage with an interminable nightmare of a mother-in-law. The poor woman finds love with a handsome townsman before deciding to end her life, rather than live with the secret, shame

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Pepe Newton

Exile and Empire, Then and Now: The Cooperative’s Nabucco

The Cooperative | Verdi’s Nabucco 30 August 2025, Pitt Street Uniting Church, Sydney, NSW Conductor: Toby Wong Director: Menila Moineaux Cast Nabucco: Tristan Entwistle Abigaille: Livia Brash Young Abigaille: Violet Rose Olds Zaccaria: Bernard Leong‑Lokman Fenena: Angelique Tot Ismaele: Sam Elmi Anna: Samanta Lestavel Abdallo: Spencer Darby Il Gran Sacerdote (High Priest): Dale Schilling Additionally: The Cooperative Chorus, Chamber Orchestra and Children’s Ensemble From the first downbeat of

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Daniel Brace

VO’s Abduction fresh, cheeky and wonderfully entertaining

Victorian Opera | Mozart’s Abduction  12 August 2025, Palais Theatre, St Kilda, VIC There was something fresh, cheeky and wonderfully entertaining about the Victorian Opera’s sensual and saucy production of Mozart’s Abduction (The abduction from the Seraglio of 1782).  Sliding the work into 2025 with an updated libretto complete with local puns and references, the Abduction was artfully directed by

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Pepe Newton

Flights, Feathers and Fanfares: Pinchgut’s Fairy Queen Soars

Pinchgut Opera | The Fairy Queen 7 June,  2025, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, NSW Wow! Pinchgut does it again… From the first downbeat to the final shimmering chord, The Fairy Queen had me completely enthralled. The thrilling blend of baroque brilliance and modern wit had me pinned to my seat, not wanting to miss a moment of this cleverly

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ABO on fire with Samuel Mariño!

Samuel Mariño and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | The sopranista returns 22 Februrary, 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney NSW Venezuelan sopranista Samuel Mariño is back in Australia, and don’t we know it. The City Recital Hall was packed with excited concert-goers for their Saturday matinee, the Venezuelan diva’s penultimate performance before returning home. On the program were arias written for

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Daniel Brace

Impressive performances from Forest Collective in a wonderfully creepy Labyrinth

Forest Collective | Labyrinth February  4, 2025 Abbotsford Convent, VIC The Minotaur always struck me as a sad figure of Greek mythology. Alone, confused, unloved, ostracised from family and eventually coming to a grizzly end. All of this makes the Minotaur an ideal subject for an opera.  Labyrinth by Evan J Lawson and Daniel Szesiong Todd tells the story in

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Daniel Brace

Follies a hit! What a star-studded line up!

Victorian Opera | Follies  Feb 1, 2025, Palais Theatre St Kilda, VIC It’s been a long wait for lovers of Stephen Sondheim to finally see a fully staged production of Follies in Australia. So many musical theatre and opera buffs cheered when the Victorian Opera announced its 2025 season opener was the fabled 1971 hit musical. As opening night approached

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