The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra under its artistic director Paul Dyer AO, presents Bittersweet Obsessions, a dramatic staging of music from the Renaissance and the Baroque that fuses music, drama and design. Bittersweet Obsessions will be constructed around three works by two of the most iconic of baroque composers and includes JS Bach’s famous comic coffee…
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…
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Sydney presents a high-spirited production of the Pirates of Penzance under the stage direction of Victoria Watson. Gilbert and Sullivan’s swashbuckling operetta follows the adventures of young Frederic, who was mistakenly apprenticed to a band of pirates after his nursemaid mistook his father’s instructions to apprentice him to a ‘pilot’. What follows…