Falstaff photo gallery

Falstaff photo gallery

Get a taste of Verdi’s rambunctious opera Verdi’s Falstaff  which opened in Sydney last Friday.  Warwick Fyfe sings the bawdy title role with Amelia Farrugia, Jacqueline Dark, Domenica Matthews, Lorina Gore, John Longmuir, Graeme McFarlane and Jud Arthur and Kanen Breen as the twin numbskulls Pistol and Bardolph adding burlesque and slapstick to their hugely demanding vocal performances….

The Dark side of mothering: Herodias in ‘Salome’

The Dark side of mothering: Herodias in ‘Salome’

  There’s no time for niceties in Richard Strauss’ opera Salome. There’s no overture that introduces themes and focuses the mind. Rather, the music and the narrative plunge straight into the tangle of lust and depravity that culminates in death and ruin. This week in Sydney, Opera Australia presents a new production of Salome, directed…