(Photo credit: Keith Saunders) The program booklet for Opera Australia’s new production at Sydney Opera House of “Tosca”, an Opera North production, says that “Puccini set each act of his opera in three very specific locations which you can still visit today: the Sant’Andrea della Valle church in Rome, the Palazzo Farnese and the Castel Sant-Angelo over the River Tiber”. {…}
(Photo credit: SSO) Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor, Simone Young leads Schoenberg’s “Gurrelieder,” at Sydney Opera House in celebration of the composer’s 150 birthday. “Gurrelieder” make its Sydney debut with soloist soprano Ricarda Merbeth, mezzo-soprano Deborah Humble, tenors Simon O’Neill and Andrew Goodwin, and bass Sava Vemić. They are joined by a chorus of more than 200 and an orchestra of {…}
(Photo credit: Daniel Boud) Concert performances of “Das Rheingold” by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO) in the Opera House Concert Hall November 16-18 were the most recent events in what is shaping up to be a bit of a Wagner year in Australia. Next month sees Opera Australia’s much-awaited new “Ring cycle” in Brisbane, delayed twice previously by COVID. Back {…}
(Credit: Jeff Busby) The Sydney Opera House will reopen on Jan. 5, 2021, with the production of Franz Lehár’s operetta ” Die Lustige Witwe,” following a 10-month long hiatus. The operetta will star the principal soprano of Opera Australia Julie Lea Goodwin in the role of Hanna Glawari, and English-Australian operatic tenor and musical theatre actor Alexander Lewis in the {…}
Following the news that Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks were tested positive for the coronavirus, the Sydney Opera House is set to be disinfected. The company announced that the theater is undergoing disinfection while health officials are tracking down concert goers who attended a small Rita Wilson performance there last Saturday. According to CNN a spokesperson for the opera house {…}
Members of the Australian public are protesting against a presentation of the Chinese Opera “Red Guards on Honghu Lake” at the Sydney Opera House on Nov. 4, 2018. In an open letter to the Minister of the Arts, the Australian Values Alliance has asked that the performance be abandoned and for tickets sales to be halted, citing that the work {…}