It was almost precisely a year ago that veteran designer Dan Potra first began imagining what La Boheme, this year's Opera on the Harbour production, which opened last night, might look and feel like.
A mysterious case of mass hysteria that followed the September 11 terrorist attacks was the inspiration for a challenging new operatic work.
Massenet's Don Quichotte paints a decadent society for whom idealism and noble purpose, however eccentric, are an unwanted and intolerable distraction from pleasure.
The surprising forecast in the city this evening is for snow. The icy downfall is courtesy of the annual spectacle of Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, which this year stages Puccini classic La Boheme.
Legendary mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter has cancelled three upcoming concerts with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and returned home to Sweden after the sudden death of her husband, Benny Fredriksson, in Sydney.
Leonard Weiss will conduct a program including excerpts from La Traviata and Lucia di Lammermoor
Opera singer Samuel Dundas reflects on his career and the women that have influenced him.
Naima Amar Lopez is used to drawing a large, appreciative crowd when she stages her dramatic flamenco show in Pitt Street mall.
Nicole Car's debut as Violetta in Elijah Moshinsky's classic 1994 production of La Traviata is a significant rite of passage in her auspicious career trajectory.
A range of artistic movements in the early 20th century – surrealism, absurdism, Dada - rebelled against the instinct to interpret and find meaning, subverting with nonsensical burlesque the philosopher within us that tries to make sense of life.
Pinocchio… Cyrano de Bergerac… Jimmy Durante … the list of comic noses in popular culture is small but significant.
John Bell has found a setting that resonates with Carmen's essential insight into the human condition.
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More than 15,000 people revelled in Puccini's classic opera on a perfect summer's night, and stealing the show in her Australian debut was soprano Elena Perroni, in the lead role of Mimi.
In the latest jolt to the classical musical world, New York's Metropolitan Opera has fired the veteran British stage director John Copley after receiving a complaint about what the company described as "inappropriate behaviour in the rehearsal room".
Acclaimed opera director Barrie Kosky presents the surreal story of an escaped nose.
After more than 140 years of being stabbed to death on stage, the gypsy heroine of the opera Carmen gets her own revenge in a new Italian production – shooting her thwarted lover instead.
There was a time when an opera singer with acting ability was a rarity – and the idea they might also be able to dance was unheard of.
From Opera Australia's King Roger to Melbourne Opera's Roberto Devereux, the kings and queens ruled the operatic calendar.
There's a 100 per cent chance of snow falling on Sydney Harbour at the end of March - courtesy of a little theatrical magic
In Coronation of Poppea, wickedness triumphs and virtue is destroyed.
Soprano Audrey Luna says singing a note so high gives her an actual high.
Rather than parachute into an opera production, the Melbourne-born soprano and romantic comedy fan prefers to get into the nuts and bolts of her character.
Even with an entire warehouse for a wardrobe, eventually something has to give, which is why Opera Australia will stage the garage sale to end all garage sales this weekend, with more than 2000 wild and wacky outfits for sale.
If you are going to extract bleeding chunks of opera, make it the finest fillet steak.
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