Opera Australia launches 2025 season with four musicals and homegrown talent

The national opera company’s 2025 season features a mix of accessible and canonical works.
A scene from 'Cinderella' ('Cendrillon') at Royal Opera House 2011; Laurent Pelly’s production has been programmed as part of Opera Australia's 2025 Sydney season. Four performers in horse costumes draw a carriage shaped like the letter C, in which a woman in a white ball gown is singing.

Launched just weeks after the shock departure of Artistic Director Jo Davies at the end of the August, Opera Australia’s newly launched 2025 season features a significant focus on home-grown talent both on and off stage.

More than 80% of principal roles programmed for 2025 will be sung by Australian artists, including Nicole Car, Emily Edmonds, Sian Sharp, Margaret Plummer and Emma Matthews; the latter has not performed with Opera Australia (OA) for a decade.

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