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Reviews, Stage Reviews

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 Will Celebrate ‘The Barber of Seville’ Production With Special Offer

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Elijah Moshinsky’s production of “The Barber of Seville” will return to the Sydney Opera House for its 30th anniversary season in January 2025. To celebrate the anniversary, Opera Australia is offering 30 tickets for only $30 each for every performance in its six-week run. The $30 ticket promotion is just one of many initiatives OA has implemented with the aim {…}

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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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Pangkor Laut Resort Announces ‘Opera in Paradise’ Lineup

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Pangkour Laut Resort in Malaysia has announced that it will present its second edition of “Opera in Paradise” this October. The event, which takes place between Oct. 18-20, 2024, will feature mezzo-soprano Laura Wright, soprano Cathy-Di Zhang, and tenor John Longmuir, alongside flutist Andrea Giminelli. Wright was a winner of the BBC Chorister of the Year award and performed for {…}

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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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State Opera Australia to Present Gilbert & Sullivan Festival

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State Opera Australia is set to host its first-ever Gilbert & Sullivan Festival. The festival, which kicks off  on May 11, will feature performances of numerous works by the famed pair. “It is incredibly exciting to see the opening of the new Gilbert and Sullivan Festival and its action-packed program of performances, conversations and laughs joining the rich tapestry of {…}

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State Opera South Australia Presents ‘G&S FEST’

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The State Opera South Australia is set to present “G&S FEST,” a 10-day-long celebration of the work of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Marking International Gilbert & Sullivan Day (May 3) the State Opera South Australia will put on full productions of “Trial by Jury,” “H.M.S. Pinafore,” “Pirates of Penzance,” and “The Sorcerer.” Other celebratory events include a G&S-themed high {…}

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David Butt Philip, Hiromi Omura & Jessica Pratt Lead Opera Australia’s Melbourne 2020 Season

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Opera Australia has announced its 2020 Melbourne program, which will include staged operas, concert performances, and musicals. Operas Graeme Murphy will direct an “innovative and visually stunning” new production of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” It will showcase how “the digital screens can be used to enhance the storytelling and opera experience,” says Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini in the press release. Japanese soprano Hiromi Omura {…}