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Kylie Minogue's Padam Padam outfit is featured in DIVA. Image: Supplied.
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Diva review: mighty goddesses unite in this glittering exhibition

The first exhibition at Melbourne's new Australian Museum of Performing Arts is a star-studded look at the diva through the…

Alexander Briger conducts the Australian World Orchestra. Briger has his arms raised dramatically and his head is thrown back; orchestra members are arrayed before him, with audience members visible behind him.
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2026 season announcements: our rolling guide to the performing arts

Orchestras, recital centres, theatre companies and more: we're compiling a list of 2026 season announcements, to be updated regularly, for…

Cleo Meinck and Emma Palmer in Fly Girl. Photo: Prudence Upton.
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Sydney’s year in theatre 2025: our three favourite shows

ArtsHub takes a look back at the year that was and revisits three of the most powerful theatre productions to…

Iestyn Davies as Orpheus and Samantha Clarke as Eurydice in Opera Australia's production of Orpheus and Eurydice, 2025. Photo: Jeff Busby.
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Orpheus & Eurydice review: a magisterial marvel

Opera Australia’s collaboration with Circa breathes dazzling new life into Gluck’s mythology-mining Orpheus & Eurydice.

Visualisation of the Ian Potter State Theatre. Image: NH Architecture.
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Melbourne's majestic State Theatre set to reopen six months ahead of schedule

Home to opera and ballet, Arts Centre Melbourne’s famed State Theatre will reopen its doors in October 2026.

opera audiences: A theatre stage with four soldiers in shadow standing in pairs in the background. In the foreground are two soldiers, crouching on the ground, each one holding a woman in his arms. The women are wearing white gowns.
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Are opera audiences really in decline? Big picture results reveal all

ArtsHub has collated the data on our major opera companies recent attendance figures and financials to reveal some interesting trends.

Franco Zeffirelli’s 'Aida' at Arena di Verona. The photograph hints at the scale of the arena production's opulent set, and depicts cast and chorus members arrayed beneath huge temple-like Egyptian statues and a pyramid.
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Adelaide Oval to host exclusive performances of Franco Zeffirelli’s Aida in 2026  

The late Franco Zeffirelli's arena production of Verdi’s Egyptian-set opera Aida will be performed in Adelaide.

O,D,E. Image: Blue Room Theatre.
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O,D,E review: Sage J Harlow's experimental opera about Orpheus & Eurydice thrills

O,D,E, based on the Ancient Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice, is a treat for the soul.

The Magic Flute. Image: Andrew Beveridge.
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The Magic Flute review: a first-of-its-kind opera collaboration in Adelaide

State Opera South Australia’s The Magic Flute is opera for our times.

Large cast scene in La La Bohème.
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La Bohème review: now relocated to 1930s Berlin at the Sydney Opera House

La Bohème is an operatic classic that still charms, but shows its age.

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