Five outstanding singers will perform in a Gala Concert as they compete for Australasia’s most coveted award for opera and classical singing, the Marianne Mathy Scholarship (‘The Mathy’). They are baritone Tristan Entwistle, 24, from New South Wales, sopranos Zoe Drummond, 25 and Cleo Lee-McGowan, 23, both from Victoria and New Zealand sopranos Katherine McIndoe, 24 and Pasquale Orchard,…
Soprano Jessica Pratt and tenor Michael Fabiano are the undoubted stars of Opera Australia’s current production of Donizetti’s bel canto masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor. Along with a strong supporting cast, the Opera Australia Chorus and the Opera Australia Orchestra, audiences and critics have been both moved and amazed by the stellar musical and dramatic performances….
Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour in 2018 opens this week presenting Puccini’s verismo masterpiece La Bohème, the tale of the art-loving quartet of young men and the shy seamstress, Mimi. This new production of La Bohème is set in a wintery 1960s Parisian landscape, with cobblestone laneways, glowing street lamps and bohemian costumes, has some surprising…