Operantics presents Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera (The Disguised Gardener), a comedy of errors with all the mistaken identities and love triangle that make Mozart’s operatic comedies so much fun to watch. Cast Sandrina – Sarah Ampil/ Il Contino Belfiore – Spencer Darby/ Arminda – Pamela Andrews/ Podestà di Lagonera – Nathan Bryon/ Don Ramiro – Rebecca Hart/ Serpetta – Katie Miller-Crispe/ Nardo…
Operantics Sydney’s youngest opera company presents Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece, La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker), following their recent successful presentations of Cosi fan Tutte, Mansfield Park, Gentleman’s Island and The Telephone. La Sonnambula started life in Paris in 1827 as a ballet, at the height of a fashion for stage works incorporating somnambulism. Its first operatic performance took…
British composer Jonathan Dove’s operatic adaptation of Jane Austen Mansfield Park, captures the heart of this timeless novel in a beautiful chamber opera set to libretto by Alasdair Middleton. Fanny Price is the poor, overlooked niece of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, raised in the midst of privilege at Mansfield Park alongside her wealthy cousins. Quietly in…