(Photo credit: Keith Saunders) Gale Edwards’ 2011 production of “La Bohème,” part of this year’s Opera Australia winter season at the Sydney Opera House, was last seen here in summer 2023. The production’s dominant ideas are that of a spiegeltent and cabaret in Weimar-era Berlin – “the dazzling fishnets and fairy lights world of 1930s Berlin,” according to the company’s {…}
(Credit: Rosie Hardie) Opera Australia has announced the cast to its upcoming Ring Cycle scheduled for October. The production, which is set to be directed and designed by Chen Shi-Zheng, was scheduled to open in 2020 but had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis. The production will now star Lise Lindstrom as Brünnhilde in the first two cycles. {…}
The Sydney Eisteddfod has announced the eight finalists for its famed Opera Scholarship, which features prizes totaling of over $61,000. The company has revealed that all eight of the singers competing for the top prize are women, making it the first time since 1995 where it is an “all-girl final.” The finalists are Olivia Cranwell, Michelle Ryan, Kirsten Jones, Panayiota {…}
