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Opera Bites

Opera Bites | Opera Lecture Series – The Operas of the Age of Puccini

Since 2003, Opera Bites Co-Founder Murray Dahm has delivered accessible, friendly and informative lectures, drawing on its history, culture and music. Enjoy exploring a variety of areas of operatic history from composers and voice types through to genres and quirky bits of opera trivia. ​From Verdi and Puccini to opera darlings such as Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland, Murray presents weekly fun,

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Keys of Gold Festival | The Bold, the Beautiful and the Bizarre!

Who needs a soap opera! With some bold masterworks from Franz Liszt, bizarre music from Dame Judith Weir – the former Master of the King’s Music, and beautiful music from Bach and Puccini, this is a program devised by Merlyn Quaife AM with Thomas Heywood to ensure there’s no “Who shot J.R.” cliffhanger needed at the end! No one will

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Keys of Gold Festival | Launch Concert

The 2026 Keys of Gold Festival Launch Concert, in the historic Lauriston Chapel at Langley Estate, brings together a glorious program of operatic favourites with renowned soprano Merlyn Quaife AM and Thomas Heywood on the recently rehomed 1875 pipe organ at Langley. Handel, Mozart and Puccini with Lehar, Strauss’ Overture to Die Fledermaus and much more! It’s a real Night

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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

River City Voices’ bold exploration of the choral canon

River City Voices | Cancel Choir August 17, 2024, Macarthur Girls’ High School, Parramatta, NSW In an interesting parallel to the ongoing ‘cancel drama’ in Melbourne, where musicians have voted no confidence in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s leadership following their cancellation of a concert by pianist Jayson Gillham, who spoke about the conflict in Gaza, River City Voices delivered a

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Pepe Newton

Review: Willoughby Symphony’s Sweet Valentine

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Gala February 14, 2021 Chatswood What better way to open a gala celebration of Valentine’s day than with a classic waltz. The electric opening chords of Johann Strauss II’s, Frühlingsstimmen op. 410 (commonly known as the Voices of Spring waltz) made me want to jump out of my seat and swirl around the room in joyful

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