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Opera Australia Chorus to Perform Duruflé Requiem

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Opera Australia has announced that the Chorus will perform an exclusive one-night-only concert of Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem at Sydney’s historic St James’ Church. The concert, which will be held on May 22, will showcase 30-strong Opera Australia Chorus members and will be led by Chorus Master Paul Fitzsimon and accompanied by Chad Kelly who will play the church’s Bicentennial Pipe {…}
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Opera Australia 2025 Review: Dido and Aeneas

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(Photo credit: Keith Saunders) The Opera Australia production of Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” that opened at the Sydney Opera House on March 13 was the second time in a year that Erin Helyard conducted the work. Previously, Helyard’s own company Pinchgut Opera had presented the work at Angel Place Recital Hall. This time Helyard conducted a co-production between Opera Australia {…}
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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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