Review: Opera Australia ‘The Magic Flute’

Review: Opera Australia ‘The Magic Flute’

  The Magic Flute – W A  Mozart, Libretto: Emmanuel Schikaneder. Opera Australia, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House January 10th 2014. Coinciding with the numerology of Mozart’s 1791 singspiel, there are three pillars of wisdom  to be accepted in appreciating this production of The Magic Flute. First, it is sung in English not in…

The ‘RingWrap’- the Second Cycle From A Sydneysider’s Perspective

The ‘RingWrap’- the Second Cycle From A Sydneysider’s Perspective

Opera Australia: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner Second Cycle State Theatre, Melbourne 27 November – 4 December 2013 During November and December Opera Australia presented the first staging of Wagner’s Ring on the east coast of Australia for 100 years.  The individual operas of the first cycle have been perceptively reviewed on this website…

Review: ‘Götterdämmerung’ Opera Australia

Review: ‘Götterdämmerung’ Opera Australia

  Opera Australia:Der Ring des Nibelungen: Götterdämmerung Arts Centre Melbourne/25 November 2013 *****    The Third Day of Wagner’s music colossus concluded what has been the kind of festival he had planned: all four operas being performed in close succession by outstanding singers and a Wagner sized orchestra of excellent musicians in a production that illuminates…