With This Ring – Roger Press On What’s Different About Opera Australia’s 2016 Ring Cycle

With This Ring – Roger Press On What’s Different About Opera Australia’s 2016 Ring Cycle

In Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, otherwise known as The Ring Cycle, three Rhinemaidens guard the Rhinegold, a priceless treasure. Not quite Rhinemaidens, Director Neil Armfield and Associate Director Roger Press, along with their cast and creatives have the formidable task of acting as custodians for Opera Australia’s 2016 reprise of this monolithic work…

Review: Tosca/Opera Australia

Review: Tosca/Opera Australia

  Tosca  –  Giacomo Puccini Opera Australia,  Sydney Opera House, 13 January 2015  John Bell’s production of Tosca for Opera Australia was first seen 18 months ago. It was very successful then, and is perhaps even more so in the current revival. This compelling production is set in Rome in 1943 during the Nazi occupation…

‘La Traviata’ – Demonstrates the Best Qualities of Traditional Productions

‘La Traviata’ – Demonstrates the Best Qualities of Traditional Productions

La Traviata  –  Giuseppe Verdi Opera Australia, 30 July 2013 On 30 July Opera Australia continued its celebration of the bi-centenary of Verdi’s birth with a revival of Elijah Moshinsky’s sumptuous 1994 production of La Traviata.  This is a traditional view of the work which vividly brings to life the world of fashionable Parisian salons…