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A crowd scene in Rusalka.
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Rusalka review: a near-perfect staging of Dvořák's most famous opera

Opera Australia’s new production of Rusalka is opera at its enchanting best.

Photo of Hiromi wearing a red dress sitting on a leather couch alongside four string quartets.
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OzAsia Festival 2025: what’s hot and what’s new

Opera comes back from the dead, The Female Pope, dance in public spaces, and the greatest debate on never moving…

a group of performers including some bare-chested circus performers on stage in a scene from Opera Queensland and Circa's world premiere production of 'Orpheus & Eurydice', 2019. The back white wall has THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE in red scrawled across it.
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Opera Queensland and Circa’s Orpheus & Eurydice set for European premiere at Edinburgh International Festival

The critically acclaimed production, created by Opera Queensland and Circa and presented by Edinburgh International Festival and Opera Australia, unites…

a group of performers including some bare-chested circus performers on stage in a scene from Opera Queensland and Circa's world premiere production of 'Orpheus & Eurydice', 2019. The back white wall has THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE in red scrawled across it.
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Opera Queensland and Circa’s Orpheus & Eurydice set for European premiere at Edinburgh International Festival

The critically acclaimed production, created by Opera Queensland and Circa and presented by Edinburgh International Festival and Opera Australia, unites…

Colourful cast scene, with a crowd looking on at two women and a man dancing in the middle. Carmen.
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Carmen review: a new look for a classic opera at Sydney Opera House

One of the most famous operas of the 19th century gets a 21st century makeover. 

A glamorous woman in a pink silky gown sits in front of a mirror putting her earrings in. Aphrodite.
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Opera review: Aphrodite, Carriageworks

A collaboration between the Sydney Chamber Opera and Omega Ensemble that favours cerebral engagement over emotional impact.

Large stage scene of 'Samson & Delilah'. In the centre are figures wearing gold costumes. They are surrounded by cast in black.
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Opera review: Samson & Delilah, Palais Theatre

Engaging musical performance meets middling narrative delivery in this traditional interpretation of an ancient story.

A production on stage with a woman sitting inside a carriage shaped like the letter ‘C’. Opera Australian production.
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Opera Australia operating at a $10 million deficit

Opera Australia's latest announcement of significant financial losses is the latest in a long string of problems for the company.

British countertenor James Laing as the Refugee in State Opera South Australia's 2025 production, 'Flight'. A distressed-looking man dressed in slightly dishevelled, mostly brown clothing, stands in an airport terminal between two rows of uncomfortable-looking metal and plastic seats. The blue-lit panelled wall behind him evokes the bars of a prison cell, while four curving beams of light projected against the walls increase the impression of this man being trapped or avoiding the spotlight.
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Opera review: Flight, Her Majesty’s Theatre

State Opera South Australia’s ‘Flight’ is opera for our times.

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.

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