The Princess and the Pea review: Fast, furious, farcical and musically rewarding
Austrian-born Ernst Toch's 1927 opera, in the hands of Victorian Opera, updates Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale to the digital age.
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Shipshape rendition of Gilbert & Sullivan classic
Melbourne Opera delivers a fine production of HMS Pinafore but it's almost too energetic for its own good.
Sex, jealousy, murder: Opera's feistiest females
As Opera Australia bumps in its spectacular restaging of Carmen outdoors on Sydney Harbour, we look at the feistiest women in the repertoire.
Sleeping Beauty review: Marvellously energetic and often hilarious performance
Joyous is the only word necessary to summarise Victoria Opera's marvellously energetic and often hilarious performance of Ottorino Respighi's 1922 opera.
Death, destruction, despair make for earthy Adelaide Festival opening weekend
Lars Eidinger's Richard III is all too knowing and self-referential a villain.
Kosky's Saul is 'dynamic and explosive'
Barrie Kosky brings Saul to the Adelaide Festival.
Mad king Saul flips out - literally
Saul, the biblical King of Israel, is descending into madness with King Lear-like fury over young David, who has slain Goliath.
Tosca review: Voices sear through wartime drama
Tosca. Opera Australia. Joan Sutherland Theatre. February17
'Tis Pity review: The strumpets shall sound
The energetic and impassioned Richard Mills, artistic director of Victorian Opera, knows no bounds.
La Traviata's enduring power to seduce, inspire and move
This was Opera Australia's 200th performance of a work that never seems to tire.
Opera Australia's La Traviata is perfect celebration of work's power to move, inspire
Opera Australia's 200th performance of La Traviata never seems to tire.
Two hundred nights of death and passion but Ermonela is not counting
Tonight Ermonela Jaho will walk on stage at the Sydney Opera House and meet her soulmate. She will fall in love, she will break hearts and – spoiler alert – she will die, all for the first time.
Opera by Candlelight 2017 at Albert Hall features rising young singers
Singers from Australia and Europe will perform old favourites and lesser-known pieces in this instalment of the annual concert.
Meow Meow limbers up for Richard Mills' sexy showbiz romp 'Tis Pity
A new, original show from Victorian Opera promises a raucous history lesson on sex and showbiz.
King Roger is rich, strange and seductive
Opera Australia's latest production was greeted with a standing ovation.
Vowels take back seat as opera stars tackle King Roger
There are a lot of challenging consonants and a collosal head in Opera Australia's new production.
Lunch with Deborah Cheetham
A childhood rebellion helped spur a career as an opera singer.
Powerful operatic double act blurs boundaries with dramatic force
Opera Australia's latest production reimagines an onstage play as a nightmare.
Richard Divall, renowned conductor and composer, dies aged 71
Awarded opera aficionado dies in Melbourne after battle with cancer.
Brisbane Baroque saga closes with creditors still out of pocket
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.
Trump, the opera?
"We're going to make opera great again."
Torre attempts famous double for Opera Australia
Diego Torre is about to become a member of a very small club of operatic tenors.
Maths and music form a sublime combination
Sydney Festival: Biographica. Sydney Chamber Opera, Ensemble Offspring. Carriageworks. January 7
Death becomes her
La Boheme. Opera Australia. Joan Sutherland Theatre, Opera House. January 4.
Putting Ring on it tops magnificent year of opera
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.
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