Opera Australia today launches its 2015 Sydney season with a core of classics performed by a stable of overseas and home-grown masters of their roles and creatives. The programme, it says is “uniquely audience-focused”, “highly accessible” and has the aim of further increasing audience numbers. Speaking to SoundsLikeSydney, Opera Australia’s Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini affirms…
Louisiana born tenor Arnold Rawls, wowed audiences with his performance as Manrico in Verdi’s Il Trovatore for Opera Australia earlier this year. He is returning to the stage of the Sydney Opera House to perform in the New Year’s Eve Gala this summer. Revisit what the tenor with the dazzling high Cs had to say about his arrival on the…
In an overnight transformation, mezzo-soprano Milijana Nikolic has shed several decades from her persona and gone from singing the role of one doomed gypsy to another. The day after the closing performance of Il Trovatore, in which she portrayed Azucena, she was rehearsing the role of Carmen which she will sing in Handa Opera on…