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Opera Australia 2025 Review: Candide

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(Photo credit: Carlita Sari) Lillian Hellman, who suggested the idea of the musical “Candide” to the great American composer Leonard Bernstein, once described Voltaire’s original 1759 novel on which the show is based as “the greatest piece of slapdash ever written.” The novel certainly packs a breathless pace as it follows its eponymous hero on an adversity-filled journey around the {…}

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Opera Australia to Peform ‘Dido & Aeneas’

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(Credit: ©David Kelly) Opera Australia is set to present Henry Purcell’s “Dido & Aeneas.” The production is Opera Queensland’s production directed by Yaron Lifschitz, Artistic Director of the widely acclaimed acrobatic troupe Circa. The production showcases the winning formula of his highly praised “Orpheus & Eurydice,” merging Circa’s physicality and Opera Australia’s musicianship in a contemporary operatic retelling of the {…}

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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 Announces Lead for ‘Guys & Dolls”

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Opera Australia has announced Angelina Thomson will play Miss Adelaide in its brand-new production of the Broadway musical “Guys & Dolls.” Thomson was chosen after an extensive nationwide search to find the right performer with the voice, dance moves, and comedy chops to bring to the role. Thomson previously performed at Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour in the ensemble of “West {…}

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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 {…}