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Opera Australia has announced that the company will undertake an inaugural tour to China this October, presenting Moffatt Oxenbould’s celebrated production of Madama Butterfly. The tour will perform eight performances in four Chinese cities: Tianjin, Qingdao, Shenzhen and Zhuhai. It is Opera Australia’s first multi-city international tour. Oxenbould’s production was performed for the last time in Australia…
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The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s 2020 season features a variety guest collaborations with whom they will perform gems from the classical and romantic eras with an acknowledgement to contemporary Australian repertoire. Directed by violinist Rachael Beesley, the year’s curtain raiser The Impresario in March, includes the Overture to Mozart’s opera of the same name,…
Madness, death and loss – this tenor never gets the girl
Tenor Stuart Skelton is soon to be performing again in Sydney. This is an interview he have to SoundsLikeSydney last year, on singing Wagner and on some of the characers he has portrayed in opera. If you’re one who believes that in the end, the tenor gets the girl, even a cursory look at the roles sung…

