Come along to The Opera Centre for a sneak peak at the production of Opera Australia’s The Force of Destiny, which opens at the Sydney Opera House on 29 June. Directed by Tama Matheson, the production features soprano Svetla Vassileva, who portrays Leonora in her Opera Australia debut. Acclaimed tenor Riccardo Massi plays Don Alvaro…
Image by Branco Gaica, courtesy Opera Australia. Opera Australia’s production of Falstaff opens in the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House tonight, Friday February 15th, in its continuing ‘Verdi-fest’. Based on Shakespeare’s comic play The Merry Wives of Windsor, this production is directed by Simon Phillips and conducted by Antony Walker. Warwick Fyfe…
It makes sense to be good friends with people you have to work with. Especially if they are people whose characters you have to inhabit. American tenor Arnold Rawls is in Sydney to sing the role of Manrico for Opera Australia in Il Trovatore. Sitting in the Green Room of the Sydney Opera House, Rawls confesses “Manrico is probably…