Facade An Entertainment is a boundlessly imaginative interplay of words and music, tripping joyfully through English life, highlighting the nonsensical, the peculiar and quixotic! William Walton’s music is written for a small chamber ensemble of 6 players to poems by Edith Sitwell spoken in time to the music. These thirty-one musical vignettes that capture the wit, frivolity and…
Madama Butterfly – Giacomo Puccini Opera Australia, Sydney Opera House 27 January 2015 Each year, Opera Australia has followed its Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour production with indoor performances of the same opera during the following year. Presumably this is intended to entice patrons who enjoyed a performance under the stars to try ‘real’ opera…
Opera Australia’s production of Albert Herring opened in Sydney last week. Set in 1900, the sepia tones of the sets and costumes designed by Roger Butlin have been newly lit by Nigel Levings and retain the feeling of nineteenth century photographs. Scroll down to see all 8 images. Images by Branco Gaica, courtesy Opera Australia.