Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour in 2018 opens this week presenting Puccini’s verismo masterpiece La Bohème, the tale of the art-loving quartet of young men and the shy seamstress, Mimi. This new production of La Bohème is set in a wintery 1960s Parisian landscape, with cobblestone laneways, glowing street lamps and bohemian costumes, has some surprising…
Barrie Kosky’s new production of the rarely performed Shostakovich classic The Nose, for Opera Australia, premieres in Sydney this summer, following its critically acclaimed debut at the Royal Opera in London in 2017. A co-production with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden and Berlin’s Komische Oper, The Nose was widely praised described by The Spectator as…
Opera Australia’s Sydney winter concert series continues with one of the world’s most powerful choral works, Verdi’s Requiem, conducted by Renato Palumbo with Italian soprano Serena Farnocchia, mezzo-soprano Milijana Nikolic, tenor Diego Torre, Italian bass Roberto Scandiuzzi, the Opera Australia Chorus and the Opera Australia Orchestra. Full of the passion and drama of opera, Verdi’s Requiem is…