Opera Australia presents a return season of Graeme Murphy’s grand vision of Puccini’s masterpiece, Turandot, set in imperial Peking, Taking the title role is American soprano Lise Lindstrom who has taken the role by storm in the major houses around the world and on film. Singing the role of Prince Calaf is Korean born new York based Yonghoon…
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…
Opera Australia’s new production of Puccini’s Tosca was premiered on 6 July, just three years after they launched their previous new production. That 2010 production was widely regarded as a dramatic disaster – a travesty which completely reinvented the work so that it bore only a passing resemblance to the plot for which Puccini wrote…