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Stacey Alleaume & Maria Laura Iacobellis Lead Opera Australia’s ‘La Traviata’

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Opera Australia will return to Melbourne’s Regent Theatre with a production of “La Traviata.” The opera will be presented from May 8-16 in Sarah Giles’ production, a co-production by Opera Queensland, State Opera South Australia and West Australian Opera. The production star Stacey Alleaume and Maria Laura Iacobellis as Violetta alongside Filipe Manu and Oreste Cosimo as Alfredo and baritones {…}

News, Season Announcement

Lester Lynch, Susan Bullock, James Clayton, Madison Nonoa, Filipe Headline New Zealand Opera’s 2026 Season

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(Credit: Katya Brook) New Zealand Opera has announced its 2026 season. The season opens with “Opera in the Park,” presented as part of the Auckland Council’s Music in Parks series. Performance Dates: Jan. 24 & 31, 2026 Next, the company presents “Bluebeard’s Castle,” with a libretto by Béla Balázs and an English translation by Daisy Evans. Brad Cohen conducts a {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

New Sussex Opera 2025 Review: The Silver Bell

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“It’s not an opera anymore, it’s a nightmare,” Camille Saint-Saëns famously wrote in 1880, when asked to produce a potential SIXTH version of his FIRST ever opera “Le timbre d’argent” (“The Silver Bell”) for a St Petersburg production which, like so many of its previous productions, was eventually abandoned. Commissioned in 1864, it saw its first abandonment at its inception, {…}

News

Opera Hong Kong to Showcase Shuang Zou’s Production of ‘The Magic Flute’

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Opera Hong Kong is set to present “The Magic Flute” this May. The production will be a special collaboration between Opera Hong Kong, China National Opera House, and State Opera South Australia, and it will be directed by Shuang Zou. The opera is set to star Andrés Moreno García, Sofia Troncoso, John Chest, and Aigul Khismatullina. Dane Lam will conduct, {…}

Special Features

Opera House Spotlights Part Two: Ecuador

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Opera exists throughout the world, from more traditional forms that depart from Westernized forms such as Peking opera, to more blended forms like the Zarzuela. Outside the European framework, opera has taken on an incredibly diverse range of complexions, from the Savoy opera to the Farsa. And while many more categories exist, it cannot be denied that European-styled opera is a global {…}

Special Features

Best of 2024: OperaWire’s Top Ten Rising Stars 2024

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(Credit: TACT/Askonas Holt/Intermusica/Natalia Jansen) It’s that time of the year. The end of the year. 2024 brought many debuts, many new productions, many competitions, many world premieres and many new young artists who are coming up in the world of opera.  And that it is reason alone to celebrate. As the year comes to an end, here’s a look at {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opera Australia 2024, Review: Watershed: The Death of Doctor Duncan

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(Photo credit: Keith Saunders) It felt like a significant event – Friday, June 14’s remounting by Opera Australia of the 2022 Adelaide Festival hit, “Watershed,” about the 1972 murder of Adelaide University law lecturer, Dr. Ian Duncan. This revival in the Sydney Opera House spoke to the success of the work at its first airing. Surely it had resonated in {…}