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opera April 9, 2022
Aided by the spectacular backdrop of Sydney Harbour, this production of The Phantom of the Opera is easy to love.
opera December 18, 2021
Opera, says Barrie Kosky, is all about bringing the dead back to life – as will be seen in his Adelaide Festival production of The Golden Cockerel.
opera October 17, 2020
The Diary of One Who Disappeared
The Sydney Chamber Opera discovers a new intimacy in its filmed performance of Leoš Janáček’s feverish song cycle.
dance May 9, 2020
With the Covid-19 lockdown forcing Sydney arts precinct Carriageworks into voluntary administration, the embattled cultural sector is bracing for worse to come.
opera May 2, 2020
Sydney Chamber Opera’s Breaking Glass
Sydney Chamber Opera’s Breaking Glass comprises four exciting new works, in which Australian women composers reimagine the myth of Odysseus, the story of the night parrot, and works by Sylvia Plath and Margaret Atwood.
opera February 2, 2019
Where’s home for theatre and opera director Barrie Kosky?
Barrie Kosky’s peripatetic career has led him to work throughout Australia and Europe, before finally establishing a true connection with Berlin. Still, for the Melbourne-born theatre and opera director, nothing says “home” like a rehearsal room. “It just happened that theatre discovered me, and performance and music discovered me, because the very same time that I started to think, ‘Who am I? How does this relate to me?’ and felt that disconnectedness, was the very same time I was experiencing music: Mahler symphonies or puppet shows or musicals or opera. And it was very linked.”
opera April 21, 2018
Opera Australia’s ‘La Traviata’
Elijah Moshinsky’s interpretation of Verdi’s tragic masterpiece La Traviata has been wowing Opera Australia audiences since the ’90s. The latest iteration – both visually rich and lovingly handled by its stars – doesn’t let down the canon.
opera December 10, 2016
Neil Armfield’s stark but powerful Ring delivers Wagner’s masterpiece as a triumph of the Australian stage, as good as could be imagined anywhere.
opera August 1, 2015
Senate inquiry into George Brandis’s arts funding plans
An inquiry into arts funding is waiting in the wings, but most of the major players are ducking the spotlight.
opera July 18, 2015
Opera director Elijah Moshinsky returns to Australia after 15 years to restage his monumental Don Carlos.
