Sydney Independent Opera’s double bill – Holst and Puccini

Sydney Independent Opera’s double bill – Holst and Puccini

Sydney Independent Opera present an unusual double bill this weekend with its productions of Gustav Holst’s The Wandering Scholar  and Puccini’s The Cloak (Il Tabarro). The Wandering Scholar was Holst’s last and most successful opera (he wrote four)*. It is a work in miniature, written in one act for a small orchestra and just four singers (tenor,…

an opera with ‘cracker’ songs – rockdale opera presents donizetti’s lucia di lammermoor

an opera with ‘cracker’ songs – rockdale opera presents donizetti’s lucia di lammermoor

Opera buff Paulo Montoya steps behind the scenes to preview this upcoming production.  Inspiring music, moving stories, forbidden love, political intrigue, dysfunctional families, deceit, insanity and murder- these are the essential ingredients of great Italian opera! Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor does not disappoint on any of these counts, and Rockdale Opera is preparing to stage this iconic…