(Photo: Keith Saunders) Opera Australia celebrated its 70th birthday with a revival of Elijah Moshinsky’s 1991 “Rigoletto,” a production that was inspired by Italy’s “La dolce vita” era. Opening night at the Sydney Opera House on July 21st was the company’s actual birthday and the audience was invited to sing “Happy Birthday” at the final curtain call. Such festivities may have {…}
(Photo credit: Prudence Upton) Opera Australia opens its Sydney Winter season with Lehár’s “The Merry Widow.” Sharing the role of Hanna Glavari is Julie Lea Goodwin and Emma Pearson who makes her role debut. Alexander Lewis, David Whitney, John Longmuir, Virgilio Marino, Alexandra Flood, Benjamin Rasheed, Richard Anderson, Alexander Hargreaves, Jane Ede, Iain Henderson, Nathan Lay, Helen Sherman, Tom Hamilton, {…}
(Photo credit: Keith Saunders) This winter season at Sydney Opera House has seen Opera Australia once again revive Sir David McVicar’s 2015 production of Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro,” restaged by Andy Morton previously, as recently as 2022. OperaWire has pertinently noted the repeat of “tried and true” in Opera Australia’s 2025 season in a recent review of “Rusalka” (itself not {…}
(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 {…}