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Enter a world of Illusion and reality, of lush beauty and eerie perfection. Is it all smoke and mirrors or real magic? Find out when Opera Australia presents a spectacular new production of Hande'ls Alcina, conducted by Music Director Richard Hickox and created by young director Justin Way with designers Andrew Hays and Kimm Kovac.
Figaro here, Figaro there.. Fiagro where? Antonio Gaudi meets the Marx brothers in this new production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville, created by Leon Krasenstein and directed by John Milson. Rossini's masterpiece, which set the standard for a golden century of Italian opera, finds itself here in a 1930s health spa where the rich and famous come to lick their wounds and smooth their wrinkles.
As we look forward to the next fifty years of great opera, Opera Australia presents its first foray into the flourishing arena of American opera with Andrι Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire, in a new production directed by the Australian cinema legend Bruce Beresford. Tennesse Williams play about desire and self delusion is a touchstone of twentieth century drama.
Fiagro loves Susanna. The Countess thinks she still loves the Count. Cherubino loves anything in a skirt and as for the Count, love is not quite the right word for how he feels about Susanna. It's just a harmless tale of another crazy day at the chateau. Or is it? Louis XVI thought Beaumarchais' play, Le mariage de Figaro downright dangerous when it was first staged in Paris in 1784.
Take a pair of sparkling eyes and a duty to be done, add some merry maidens and two gallant gondoliers and, before you know it, you'll be dancing the fandango along with Opera Australia's finest Savoyards. Nothing is sacred not even royalty for the sharp wit of W.S. Gilbert, and so no one pulls a melody out of the air like Arthur Sullivan.
Opera Australia presents The Tales of Hoffman. In a real coup for the national opera company, Stuart Maunders new production of the Tales of Hoffmann features artists who will appear in all three episodes, brining powerful unity to this crazy fantasy. Hoffmann has never been lucky in love. He is entranced by the doll Olympia, seduced by the courtesan Giulietta, obsessed by the fragile singer Antonia.
If you feel like you're falling in love the moment the curtain goes up on this magnificent opera, you're not alone. With a rustle of silk and a clink of glasses the curtain goes up on one of the world's favorite operas, Verdi's La traviata. Elijah Moshinsky's production is everything grand opera should be magnificent, extravagant and devastatingly romantic.
For the first time in Australia, Opera Australia's Music Director Richard Hickox conducts a fully-staged new production of Antonin Dvorak's Rusalka, starring Cheryl Barker in the title role. Rusalka is notoriously difficult to cast. The title role demands a strong lyric soprano who can take on the ethereal, otherworldly quality of the water nymph who sacrifices her life for a moment of bliss.
With a clash of cymbals Mozart's breathless overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio races out of the pit. This is the work that launched Mozart's operatic career, packed full of virtuosic arias and dramatic ensembles. To bring this youthful masterpiece to the stage is playwright and director Michael Gow, whose irreverent interpretation sets the brilliant young composer's tale of East meets West in that contemporary of cultural melting pots, the airport lounge.
Now it is time for one of the funniest creations, Sweeny Todd, to return to Sydney for another hair-raising, rib ticking, stomach-turning run. Stephen Sondheim's musicals have thrilled audiences on Broadway and in London's West End. Now it is time for one of his funniest creations, Sweeney Todd, to return to Sydney for another hair-raising, rib tickling, stomach turning run.
When Tannhauser first opened, Wagner's provocative myth of sacred and profane love met with a mixture of confusion and uproar. Then in 1988, as writhing dancers emerged from a river of light, audiences experienced something of that shock and thrill with Elke Neidhardt's interpretation of Wagner's revolutionary masterpiece.
ries. Three heroines. One diva. Witness a crime of passion in the psychologically thrilling Il tabarro. The incandescent performances of Cheryl Barker have brought countless Puccini heroines from Mimi to Madama Butterfly to life. Now in vocal first for this internationally acclaimed artist, she will perform all three central roles in Puccini's triple bill, II tritico.
l trovatore is set in fifteenth-century France but the composer was himself living through the chaotic Italian politics of the 1860s.Opera Australia is thrilled to introduce distinguished conductor Sir Richard Armstrong, former artistic director of Scottish Opera, making his Australian debut with a dream cast.
la of the Old university by the famous Salzburg Chamber Soloists.