Operantics Sydney’s youngest opera company presents Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece, La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker), following their recent successful presentations of Cosi fan Tutte, Mansfield Park, Gentleman’s Island and The Telephone. La Sonnambula started life in Paris in 1827 as a ballet, at the height of a fashion for stage works incorporating somnambulism. Its first operatic performance took…
Mozart And Salieri – Triple Bill Bare Bones Opera Australian Performing Arts Grammar School, Sydney August 4, 2016 Written by Leona Geeves It was almost a case of Mozart and Salieri appearing on Broadway when Bare Bones Opera made its debut and a splash with its enterprising selection of rarities at a new venue, Australian…
Bare Bones Opera launches its debut production, a joint-venture of emerging artists with a fresh approach to operatic performance. Bare Bones was created by soprano Laura King and bass-baritone Christopher Curcuruto, to create a more traditional, scaled-back, theatrical style of opera. This inaugural production contains a triple bill of operas by Rimsky Korsakov (Mozart and Salieri), Mozart (Prima…