Opera Review: Król Roger (King Roger) / Opera Australia

Opera Review: Król Roger (King Roger) / Opera Australia

  Król Roger (King Roger)  –  Karol Szymanowski Opera Australia, Joan Sutherland Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House 20 January 2017 Opera Australia’s second new production in the 2017 summer season is Król Roger (King Roger) by the early 20th century Polish composer Karol Szymanowski.  The work is rarely performed outside Poland and this co-production with…

Opera Review: Simon Boccanegra / Opera Australia

Opera Review: Simon Boccanegra / Opera Australia

  Simon Boccanegra  –  Giuseppe Verdi Opera Australia, Joan Sutherland Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House, 26 July 2016 Author: Larry Turner for SoundsLikeSydney© Opera Australia’s current staging of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra first appeared in 2000 as part of the Olympic Arts Festival. It has been revived by the company’s Senior Resident Director, Matthew Barclay, in…

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…