Next year, Opera Australia presents King Roger by the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (1882 – 1937). Get the story behind this rarely performed opera when the Sydney Opera Society presents a talk by Dr David Schwartz on this 20th century masterpiece. Opera Australia’s presentation in January 2017, is a co-production from the Royal Opera Covent Garden, directed by Kasper Holten….
Prokofiev’s madcap ‘anti-opera’ opened on Sydney this week. There is an abundance of satire in Tom Stoppard’s wickedly funny English libretto with plenty of belly laughs, fantasy and high camp embedded in a riot of colour. Scroll down to see all 7 images. Images courtesy Opera Australia
“Oh, we’re your real opera buffs! Give us tunes that we can hum!” So plead the Lyricists in the prologue of Prokofiev’s madcap opera The Love for Three Oranges, whilst the Tragedians demand “blood and thunder…sex and souls” and the Comedians angle for “genuine comedy”. Sadly for the Lyricists, Prokofiev did not write many “tunes…