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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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Samantha Clarke & Lorina Gore to Headline Opera Australia’s ‘La Traviata’

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Opera Australia is set to present “La Traviata” in Sarah Giles’ luscious production. The opera, which will be presented between Jan. 23 and March 27, 2025, at the Sydney Opera House, will star Australian sopranos Samantha Clarke and Lorina Gore as Violetta. They will be joined by Korean tenor Ji-Min Park and Australian Iain Henderson as Alfredo and baritones José Carbó {…}

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Opera Australia Unveils 2025 Season

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Opera Australia has announced its 2025 season. Sydney The season opens with Massenet’s “Cendrillon.” Evan Rogister and Tahu Matheson conduct. Laurent Pelly directs a cast starring Emily Edmonds, Margaret Plummer, Sian Sharp, and Emma Matthews. Performance Dates: Dec. 31, 2024 – March 28, 2025 “The Barber of Seville,” in a production by Elijah Moshinsky, stars Samuel Dale Johnson, Samuel Dundas, {…}

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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 2024 Review: Idomeneo

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(Photo: Keith Saunders In her thought-provoking program essay on “Idomeneo,” the final opera in Opera Australia’s 2024 summer season which premiered at Sydney Opera House on Feb 20, director Lindy Hume quotes Anne Carson’s “Grief Lessons” of 2008: “Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush {…}

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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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Christophe Dumaux, Kang Wang, Samantha Clarke, Stacey Alleaume, Cathy-Di Zhang Headline Opera Australia’s 2024 Sydney Season

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Opera Australia announced its 2024 summer season which will feature five Sydney Opera House premieres. Guest Creative Director Lindy Hume curated the season. The program highlights the scope of Australian talent both “on and off the stage,” as well as international guest artists and opera in contemporary storytelling. Hume’s program includes several milestone partnerships for Opera Australia including Victorian Opera, {…}

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Camilla Nylund, Amanda Majeski & Lise Lindstrom Lead Semperoper Dresden’s 2023-24 Season

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The Semperoper Dresden has announced its 2023-24 season. Here is a look at the operatic productions of the season. Premieres  Puccini’s “Turandot” is set to star Elisabeth Teige, Aleksei Kulagin, Yonghoon Lee, and Elbenita Kajtazi. Ivan Repušić conducts the new production by Marie-Eve Signeyrole. Performance Dates: Oct. 7-Nov. 25, 2023 Mary Plazas, Katerina von Bennigsen, Peter Tantsits, and Andrew Nolen {…}