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Asmik Grigorian, Jessica Pratt, Corinne Winters, Bianca Andrew, Zanda Svede Headline Oper Frankfurt’s 2022-23 Season

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Oper Frankfurt has unveiled its 2022-23 season which will include 11 new productions. New Productions  The season opens with “Die Zauberflöte” as directed by Ted Huffman. Julia Jones and Simone Di Felice conduct casts starring Kudaibergen Abildin, Michael Porter, Hyoyoung Kim, Karolina Bengtsson, Danylo Matviienko, Domen Krizaj, Andreas Bauer Kanabas, Kihwan Sim, Anna Nekhames, and Aleksandra Olczyk, among others. Performance {…}
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Opera Australia to Revive ‘Hansel & Gretel’

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Opera Australia is set to present Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel.” The opera, which opens on Jan. 27 and runs through Feb. 28, 2026, will be performed for the first time in two decades. Elijah Moshinsky’s legendary production will be revived by Claudia Osborne, who will direct. Meanwhile, Tahu Matheson will conduct. The cast will include mezzo-soprano Margaret Plummer as Hansel, {…}
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Opera Australia 2025 Review: La Bohème

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(Photo credit: Keith Saunders) Gale Edwards’ 2011 production of “La Bohème,” part of this year’s Opera Australia winter season at the Sydney Opera House, was last seen here in summer 2023. The production’s dominant ideas are that of a spiegeltent and cabaret in Weimar-era Berlin – “the dazzling fishnets and fairy lights world of 1930s Berlin,” according to the company’s {…}
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Opera Australia 2025 Review: Rusalka

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(© Carlita Sari) Of Antonín Dvořák’s ten operas, “Rusalka,” written around the dawn of the twentieth century and only a few years before the composer’s death, became his most successful. That this highly romantic fairytale (or should one say, water nymph tale?) should be the most courageous of Opera Australia’s (OA) offerings for the second half of this year, tells {…}
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Opera Australia 2025 Review: The Barber of Seville

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(Photo credit: Keith Saunders) One of the benefits of reviewing operas is the opportunity to take guests whose experience of opera may be comparatively recent, and whose reactions are refreshingly unbound by preconceptions. At the end of scene one of Opera Australia’s “The Barber of Seville” at Sydney Opera House on Saturday January the 18th my guest on the night {…}
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Opera Australia to Present ‘The Magic Flute’ at Geelong Arts Centre

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(Credit: Opera Australia) The Play House at Geelong Arts Centre is set to present Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” The production will be showcased via Opera Australia which is expanding its 2024 mainstage offering beyond the capital cities. The opera will be shown in a production by Kate Gaul, which received high acclaim at the Sydney Opera House earlier this year. {…}
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Opera Australia 2024 Review: Tosca

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(Photo credit: Keith Saunders) The program booklet for Opera Australia’s new production at Sydney Opera House of “Tosca”, an Opera North production, says that “Puccini set each act of his opera in three very specific locations which you can still visit today: the Sant’Andrea della Valle church in Rome, the Palazzo Farnese and the Castel Sant-Angelo over the River Tiber”. {…}
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Opera Australia Announces 2024 Season

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Opera Australia has announced its 2024 season, the first under new artistic director Jo Davies. Melbourne The Melbourne season opens with “BMW Opera for All,” a concert series in collaboration with Orchestra Victoria. Performance Dates: Feb. 3, 2024 Next up is “Tosca.” Edward Dick directs and Garry Walker conducts. Performance Dates: May 24 – 30, 2024 Missy Mazzoli’s “Breaking the {…}
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Opera Australia Review 2023: La Bohème

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(Photo credit: Prudence Upton) The stories on which Puccini based his much-loved opera “La Bohème” (Henri Murger’s “Tales from Bohemian Life”) were set in Paris in the 1830s. Puccini and his librettists distilled from Murger’s diverse and diffuse vignettes of life amid the crowded echelons of poorer Parisian society a throughline of love and dying among four young struggling artist-friends {…}

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