Sydney has a new opera company! With a name that reflects Sydney’s brilliant waterfront location and sophistication, Harbour City Opera has been founded to provide opportunities for the many talented emerging and established professionals on stage and behind the scenes to perform fully staged roles in exquisite, well produced operas. For their opening offering, Harbour City Opera is…
As one lothario’s time in Sydney comes to an end, another moves in. The Sydney Theatre company’s production of the Brecht/Weill Threepenny Opera closed over the weekend as Opera Australia’s production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni opened. In many ways the two men, Macheath and Don Giovanni are similar. Murderers, rapists and, unscrupulous seducers whose evil is made…
Watching soloists take their curtain calls absorbing the appreciation of the audience, the rise to solo status seems so easy; a natural progression. The scenario belies their years of training and practice, the personal and financial sacrifices, and the unerring focus on the longer term goals. Tenor Edmond Choo has his goals firmly in sight….