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Reviews, Stage Reviews

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 {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour 2024 Review: West Side Story

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Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, now in its thirteenth year, is a cultural entity in Australia, made possible with the ongoing financial assistance of the Japanese businessman, philanthropist and spiritual leader, the mysterious Dr Haruhisa Handa. This time in every year (except for 2020, due to COVID cancellations), an enormous stage is erected on the water of Sydney Harbour, while {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

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 {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opera Australia 2021 Review: La Traviata

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Opera Australia’s annual Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour returned this year after last year’s Covid-enforced hiatus with a re-staging by Constantine Costi of the production of “La Traviata” by Francesca Zambello which, back in 2012, launched this Sydney institution. How a venue brings out different qualities in a familiar work is one of the fascinating aspects of theatrical performance traditions. {…}

News

Handa Opera To Present ‘West Side Story’ On Sydney Harbour

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This spring, Handa Opera will present U.S. based director Francesca Zambello’s new production of ‘West Side Story,’ the very first musical to take place outside on Sydney Harbor. The production, according to the press release, will bring “a gritty, urban New York landscape to a floating stage on the picturesque shores of Sydney Harbor, complete with graffiti-covered streetcars, a subway {…}

News, Season Announcement

Benjamin Appl, Helen Charlston, Roderick Williams, & Lotte Betts-Dean Among Performers in Oxford International Song Festival 2025

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The Oxford International Song Festival has announced its line up for 2025. This article only features classical vocal concerts. Baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist Sholto Kynoch open the festival with a concert highlighting the works of Franz Schubert. Performance Date: October 10, 2025 Baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist Sholto Kynoch perform a small selection of songs in “Song Sofa.” This {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Anita Rachvelishvili, Angel Blue & Zachary James Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences will get a chance to hear two solo albums from some of the most exciting artists in the industry, world premiere recordings, and a rarely performed opera, among others. Here is a look at the new releases: Élégie  Sony Classical will release Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili’s second album. The new album will showcase Rachvelishvili in the song {…}