A new production of Bizet’s bewitching opera Carmen, captured live during the European summer from the stage amidst the impressive ruins at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, screens in Sydney this weekend. Created by the exciting Latin director Valentina Carrasco of La Fura dels Baus, sets Bizet’s tale of the passionate yet destructive love…
American tenor Charles Castronovo is coming to Sydney in July as Ferrando in the new Sir David McVicar production of Così fan tutte for Opera Australia. This weekend, you can see and hear him as Edgardo in a new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, filmed at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden in April 2016. The story follows an ongoing…
Sydney opera lovers were delighted by Sir David McVicar’s production of The Marriage of Figaro for Opera Australia seen earlier this year. Palace Opera and Ballet screens the cinema version of Sir David McVicar’s acclaimed Covent Garden production of Mozart’s lively and gloriously fun comic opera about love, infidelity and forgiveness. The action is set…