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Opera Australia and Pinchgut Opera announce inaugural collaboration

A story of religious devotion ending in martyrdom, Handel’s ‘Theodora’ will be staged in concert at Sydney Opera House.

24 Jan 2024 11:47

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Pinchgut Opera’s ‘Theodora’. Photo: Robert Catto.

George Frideric Handel’s penultimate oratorio Theodora, will be staged in concert at Sydney Opera House in February, in the first ever collaboration between Opera Australia (OA) and baroque specialist Pinchgut Opera.

The new partnership marks the first time in 10 years that OA has programmed an opera by George Frideric Handel, as well as Pinchgut Opera’s Sydney Opera House debut.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts