Operaquatics – more production shots from La traviata on Sydney Harbour


- Rachelle Durkin as Violetta. Image by Lisa Tomasetti









We’re just back from Melbourne where, over the last week SoundsLikeSydney has been sitting in on the final rehearsals for Opera Australia’s 2016 production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle which opens tomorrow night at Melbourne’s State Theatre. The verdict? We can’t give away too much, but we can say that this is a superlative production of…
Congratulations to soprano Felicity Tomkins, awarded first place in The Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship 2024.
Piano virtuoso Andrea Lam and award-winning Australian composer Matthew Hindson have collaborated on a new release Sad Piano on ABC Classic.
Shauna Beesley wins the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize for 2024, for her work, Journey, as announced by the Music Performance UNSW.
Earlier this month, at London’s Royal Albert Hall, Sydney born Amy Dickson was named the 2013 Classical BRIT Award’s Breakthrough Artist of the Year for her new album Dusk & Dawn. This is notable for two reasons. Dickson is the first Australian to win a Classical Brit Award; second, it signals a new interest in…
In breaking news, SoundsLikeSydney can report that Melbourne-based tenor Shanul Sharma will make his German debut at the Staatsoper Hannover in September as M.K.Gandhi in Philip Glass’ opera Satyagraha.