Opera Australia has announced that it will present “Lohengrin” with superstar Jonas Kaufmann in the title role. The production will be directed by Olivier Py and will also star Emily Magee, Elena Gabouri, Marco Vratogna, Daniel Sumegi and Warwick Fyfe. The work will be conducted by Opera Australia’s Head of Music Tahu Matheson. The opera is set to premiere at {…}
Opera Australia has announced that it will premiere the world’s first fully digital Ring Cycle in December 2023 at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC). The Ring Cycle was originally scheduled to open in November 2020, but postponed twice due to COVID-19-related restrictions and border closures. The season will feature three full Ring Cycles and seven performances of OA’s digital production {…}
Opera Australia has announced the inaugural New Year’s Eve Opera Gala on Cockatoo Island. The Cockatoo Island event is in addition to Opera Australia’s annual New Year’s Eve opera performance at the Joan Sutherland Theatre in the Sydney Opera House. The gala will feature a two-hour concert of opera classics under the stars, hosted by Jonathan Biggins and will see {…}
Opera Australia has announced its 2022 season. Sydney Season First up in the summer season will be “La Bohème” directed by Gale Edwards and conducted by Lorenzo Passerini and Paul Fitzsimon. The opera will star Valeria Sepe, Kang Wang, Julie Lea Goodwin, Haotian Qi, Shane Lowrencev, and Richard Anderson. Performance Dates: Dec. 31, 2021 – Feb. 4, 2022 Next up {…}
Opera Australia has announced that it will present two outdoor spectacles in 2022. First up will be a production of “The Phantom of the Opera” at Sydney Harbour. The musical, which will run between March 25 and April 24, 2022, will be directed by Simon Phillips and feature designs by Gabriela Tyleova. “It’s a particular thrill to be creating a {…}
Opera Australia has been forced to postpone the Brisbane premiere of its Ring Cycle for the second year running due to the latest COVID-19 outbreak. The production, which is the world’s first fully digital Ring Cycle, was originally programmed for 2020 and was rescheduled to open at Queensland Performing Arts Centre on Oct. 29, 2021. However with a hard border closure {…}
MarqueeTV has announced its Autumn / Winter 2021 season. On the opera front, audiences will get a chance to check out a series of operas from Opera Australia including “Aida,” “Carmen,” “La Bohème,” “La Traviata,” “Madama Butterfly,” and “Turandot.” Meanwhile from Teatro alla Scala, the company will present such operas as “Così fan tutte,” “Il Viaggio a Reims,” “Nabucco,” “Simon {…}
(Credit: Pamela Raith) Opera Australia has announced that international performing arts leader Fiona Allan has been appointed as the Company’s next Chief Executive Officer and will commence in the role by the end of 2021. As the new CEO, Allan will return to Australia following many years in the United Kingdom, where she led multiple performing arts organizations including the {…}
Photo: photoholgic Opera Australia’s rush to move its production of Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” from Sydney to Brisbane to avoid border closures hit a snag when Brisbane implemented a snap lockdown last weekend, according to an August 1, 2021 report by Linda Morris published in The Sydney Morning Herald. Opera Australia (OA) has a 10-day window to get the production to {…}
Opera Australia will receive an injection of $4 million in emergency funding to keep the organization afloat after canceling its run of “Phantom of the Opera,” which raked in $20 million (AUS) in ticket sales, according to a July 25, 2021 article by Linda Morris in The Sydney Morning Herald. The money will come from the Australia COVID-19 Arts Sustainability {…}
Opera Australia has canceled the remainder of its winter season due to COVID-19. The company announced via social media that “due to the extension of the NSW Government’s stay-at-home restrictions and subsequent Health Orders, we’re sadly unable to proceed with the remainder of our winter season at the Sydney Opera House. This includes our productions of ‘Aida,’ ‘Attila,’ and ‘Otello.’” {…}
