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Rusalka

Award winning director Sarah Giles presents a new production of Dvorak’s melodic, romantic opera, Rusalka starring, Nicole Car, one of…

Performances & Gigs

Opera Australia

The Marriage of Figaro

Opera’s most charming character Figaro returns in Mozart's delightful comedy that is filled with witty fast-moving, hum-along melodies to match…

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Opera Australia

La Bohème

Get ready to be transported to the fairy light-filled cabarets of 1930s Berlin in this glittering production of Puccini’s adored…

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The Events Centre

Puccini’s La Bohème

Experience the original bohemian love story with Opera Australia. This new production breathes fresh life into one of the world’s…

Performances & Gigs

Springboard Opera

The Boor, a Comedic Opera by Dominick Argento

A stellar Brisbane cast and an Australian first, The Boor is an operatic gem set to have you hooked from…

A two-storey structure, with separate rooms. There is a conductor at the front.
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Opera review: Innocence, Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival

A complex and multilayered production about collective guilt and trauma that deployed different languages and singing styles.

Opera for the Dead performance shot, featuring two movable stages, each with a performing standing at its centre, slightly obscured by black stingy curtains. The image is dark other than the stage being slightly illuminated from below.
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Performance review: Opera for the Dead (祭歌), Asia TOPA 2025

A cyber-opera that deserves the world stage.

A crowd scene of 'Candide'. The dancing cast is dressed in period costume. There is a faded caravan behind them.
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Opera review: Candide, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House

Bernstein’s crowd-pleasing comic operetta will have audiences laughing at the absurdity of extreme ideas.

Inside the Royal Exhibition Building.
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Opera review: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Royal Exhibition Building

Melbourne Opera stays well within its comfort zone for Wagner’s epic comedy.  

Career Advice

So you want my arts job: Librettist

If you possess humility, audacity, originality and passion, becoming a librettist may suit you, says playwright, director, dramaturg and librettist…

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