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Opera review: The Nightingale and Other Fables, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide Festival

A stunningly inventive operatic reimagining makes its Australian debut in Adelaide. 

‘The Nightingale and Other Fables’ upcoming at Adelaide Festival 2024, directed by Robert Lepage. Photo: Michael Cooper. A performer in traditional Chinese garment standing on a rooftop with a branch extending out into the violet night sky.
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Orientalism, a stain that taints Australian opera?

From yellowface to chinoiserie – Orientalism pervades Western stages, so will that include Adelaide Festival’s upcoming, lauded centrepiece opera?

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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.

A promotional image for Opera Australia. Against the sails of the Sydney Opera House a figure in red looks up to the sky.
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What our opera companies are offering in 2024

New leadership means new energy for major companies in an exciting year.

Götterdämmerung. A Wagnerian male singer is on his knees screaming out in distress, while a man behind him attacks him with a staff. Other figures stands out around in furs.
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Opera review: Götterdämmerung (The Ring Cycle), QPAC

Well-crafted and powerfully delivered, Götterdämmerung’s resounding success concluded a polished and exceptional Ring Cycle presented by Opera Australia in Brisbane.

Aida. Image is a woman in black singing and gesticulating in operatic style, while members of the chorus lie around her reaching up, they are in Ancient Egyptian costumes, with lots of gold.
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Opera review: Aida, QPAC

Musically first-rate and impressively sung, Verdi’s 'Aida' rises above the idiosyncrasies of this 21st century production. 

The Bridal Lament. Image is a close-up of an Asian woman's face with a complex headdress, heavy makeup and facial adornments in the form of eight white pearl tears. She looks sad.
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Theatre review: The Bridal Lament, Space Theatre

Rainbow Chan's OzAsia contribution was 'an ambitious work infused with vulnerability, grief, and empowerment'.

Sibyl. image is a range of performers on a dark stage in wide outlandish costumes, one of whom is holding a large broom and casting a huge shadow on a backdrop that is also covered in projections of newspaper front covers.
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Opera review: Sibyl, Sydney Opera House

A creative South African performance that dazzles the senses, ‘Sibyl’ marks a new era for Sydney's famed icon.

Love Letters. Image shows actor in 'A friendship of life and death' at Melbourne Fringe, bending character on empty stage wearing green costume with black sash and holding red string.
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Theatre reviews: Love Letters and A friendship of life and death, Melbourne Fringe Festival

Ambitious shows aiming to bridge cultural understandings showed good intentions, but needed more development.

Jacqui Dark. Head of smiling woman with green eyes and blonde wavy hair against black backdrop.
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Vale Jacqueline Dark

The 'indefatigably upbeat' Australian mezzo-soprano died this week, aged just 55.

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