Singers from Australia and Europe will perform old favourites and lesser-known pieces in this instalment of the annual concert.

A new, original show from Victorian Opera promises a raucous history lesson on sex and showbiz.

Opera Australia's latest production was greeted with a standing ovation.

There are a lot of challenging consonants and a collosal head in Opera Australia's new production.

A childhood rebellion helped spur a career as an opera singer.

Opera Australia's latest production reimagines an onstage play as a nightmare.

Awarded opera aficionado dies in Melbourne after battle with cancer.

The company behind the embattled Brisbane Baroque festival has been placed into voluntary liquidation bringing to an end a saga that has captivated the Australian arts landscape for months.

"We're going to make opera great again."

Diego Torre is about to become a member of a very small club of operatic tenors.

Sydney Festival: Biographica. Sydney Chamber Opera, Ensemble Offspring. Carriageworks. January 7

La Boheme. Opera Australia. Joan Sutherland Theatre, Opera House. January 4.

Any year with a Ring in it is bound to be worth celebrating. As it was with Opera Australia's revival of Neil Armfield​'s production of Der Ring des Nibelungen.

It is difficult to know what to commend most strongly.

It was hard to imagine things could step up any further but this last and longest of the Ring operas was also the most majestic.

That anyone can sing Siegfried, the title role in Wagner's third Ring opera, is surprising, so challenging is the role. That anyone can sing it like Stefan Vinke is astounding.

It's a marathon even when things go according to plan, but opera-goers stayed till after midnight to hear Ride of the Valkyries in Die Walkure.

Lise Lindstrom as Brunnhilde was a particular delight, while the surprise of the night, almost but not quite eclipsing her, was Amber Wagner as Sieglinde.

Pinchgut, the opera company named after a convict island, is taking on the Handel work more sophisticated than The Messiah.

Conductor Pietari Inkinen was masterly, unfailingly sensitive to the singers and to the musical flow, while the 100-strong Melbourne Ring Orchestra was superb. Bring on the Valkyries.

Singers have long been troubled by the depiction of African-American people in Porgy and Bess.

From Bugs Bunny to Apocalypse Now, Wagner's opera has become a pop culture classic.

International opera star Sumi Jo has arrived in Canberra for recently moved - but not renamed - Voices in the Forest.

From the overblown pomp of political rallies to the environmental ravages of capitalism, Neil Armfield finds new themes resonating in the return of his Opera Australia production of Wagner's four-opera epic The Ring.