Opera Australia has announced the cast for its 70th Anniversary Gala on May 17. The evening, which will take place t the Regent Theatre, will celebrate its extraordinary contribution to Australia’s cultural landscape over the past seven decades. The evening will include Emma Matthews, Stacey Alleaume, Olivia Cranwell, Jane Ede, Sian Sharp, Diego Torre, Filipe Manu, Iain Henderson, Andrii Kymach, Luke {…}
Robert Carsen’s beloved production of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” returns to the Canadian Opera Company. The opera will be performed seven times at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts between May 2 and 24, 2025. Speranza Scapucci conducts the COC Orchestra with a cast that includes Australian soprano Lauren Fagan as Tatiana and Andrii Kymach as Onegin. They will be joined {…}
(Credit: Sébastien Mathé) Vincenzo Bellini’s last opera, “I Puritani,” premiered in 1835 at the Theatre d’Italie in Paris, in the same year he untimely died at 35. The story is set in England in the 17th century, during the civil war between Cromwell’s republicans (the Puritans of the title) and the Stuarts’ royalists. While the music sets this work as {…}
