Opera Review: The Love For Three Oranges/ Opera Australia

Opera Review: The Love For Three Oranges/ 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…

Opera Review: The Barber Of Seville/ Opera Australia

Opera Review: The Barber Of Seville/ Opera Australia

The Barber of Seville –  Gioachino Rossini Opera Australia, 28 January 2016 Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House. Elijah Moshinsky’s 1995 production of Rossini’s Barber of Seville has proven, over the subsequent 20 years, to be one of the company’s most popular and enduring.  Although set in the 1920s it is an otherwise traditional production…