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Pepe Newton

O|A’s sexy, silly, funny Merry Widow a must see

Opera Australia | The Merry Widow 8 July, 2026, Sydney Opera House, NSW Audible gasps greeted the rise of the curtain. Before a note had been sung, Graeme Murphy’s sumptuous Art Deco world had already won over the opening-night audience. What followed was three glorious acts of manipulation, romance, misunderstanding, diplomatic machinations and, ultimately, love. Sexy, silly and funny, Opera

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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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Opera Australia | La Stupenda: A Joan Sutherland Celebration

A star-studded tribute to the voice that stopped the world — celebrating the 100th birthday of Joan Sutherland with highlights from her most iconic roles. When Joan Sutherland sang, the world listened. With astonishing technique, extraordinary musicality, and impossibly perfect high notes, she brought forgotten heroines to life and earned her own place in operatic history. We’re proud to have

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Opera Australia | The Drover’s Wife

They will say a story ended, those who cannot understand, no-one’s story ends forever, our Dreaming is forever. Molly Johnson is a survivor. Heavily pregnant, she’s left alone to care for her children in a remote Snowy Mountains shanty. Between the snakes, bullocks and hostile travellers on her doorstep, she faces no shortage of threats. With her husband away droving

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Opera Australia | Rigoletto

A father’s curse, a daughter’s fate. As innocence is shattered, revenge becomes the only prayer. At the Duke’s infamous parties, one man’s words light the darkness with a sinister glitter. Among the glamorous girls and greasy gangsters, Rigoletto serves his master with sharp wits and averted eyes. From the moment he wrote it, Verdi knew he had a hit on

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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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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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Warren Wills

O|A Bizet’s Carmen… Vamos! Magnifico!

Opera Australia | Carmen November 15, 2025, Regent Theatre, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion A Saturday night opening of Bizet’s timeless, steamy Spanish masterpiece Carmen at Melbourne’s glorious Regent Theatre, presented by Opera Australia. Arriving in the same week that beloved septuagenarian rockers AC/DC pack the MCG, on the eve of the much-vaunted Ashes series, and amidst both the British and Jewish Film

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Daniel Brace

Eucalyptus, a period piece true to the artform and the story

Opera Australia & Victorian Opera | Eucalyptus October 16, 2024, Palais Theatre, St Kilda, VIC Fresh from the Brisbane Festival, this new Australian opera is a co-commission between the Victorian Opera and Opera Australia, and a co-production with Opera Australia and the Perth and Brisbane Festivals. Eucalyptus: The Opera is composed by Jonathon Mills with libretto by Meredith Oakes, directed

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Daniel Brace

Idomeneo – simple, daring, delightful

Victorian Opera | Idomeneo Tuesday July 5, 2023, Palais Theatre, St Kilda, VIC When Elettra misses out on her man, she sees red. Waves of red crash over and cover the walls of the stage. Elettra is bathed in red. She is furious. And we know it. It’s one of the closing scenes of the simple, daring and delightful co-production by

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When I grow up I want to be a Valkyrie: Impressions of the Melbourne Ring Cycle

Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner Conductor: Peitari Inkenen Director: Neil Armfield Opera Australia, Arts Centre Melbourne, November 2013 The Music If Wagner had been born a century later he may have been a great film composer. His music is very visual — both spectacular and intimate! If a line is drawn from Wagner, and through Strauss,

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Opera Australia: Don Pasquale

From Thursday to Saturday last week I had a broad range of musical experiences. From Don Pasquale, to Michael Kieran Harvey and the Flying Dutchman. Here is Part 1 On Thursday it was OA’s new production of Don Pasquale. I have a particular affection for this this opera. it was the first complete opera production I ever attended. It featured

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John O'Brien

B team gives an A class ensemble performance of Falstaff

If one ever needed an argument for an ensemble opera company all the evidence is to be found in the 2013 Opera Australia production of Falstaff! This late Verdi opera resembles Wagner in musical approach more than in Verdi’s grander operas. Except in the final Act there are few set piece arias. Consistency of tone and line in the ongoing

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