La Bohème Returns For New Year’s Eve And Season Opening

La Bohème Returns For New Year’s Eve And Season Opening

Opera Australia’s summer program opens with Gale Edwards’ production of La Bohème, a revival of Puccini’s classic bohemian love story presented against the backdrop of 1930s Berlin. Opening on New Year’s Eve at the Sydney Opera House, there will be fireworks at 9 o’clock, during intermission and afterwards guests can join the midnight celebrations at…

Opera Australia’s New Digital Production Of Madama Butterfly

Opera Australia’s New Digital Production Of Madama Butterfly

Puccini’s Tragedia giapponese in two acts, Madama Butterfly presented by Opera Australia, goes on the boards from June 28 to August 10. Set to libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after David Belasco’s play Madame Butterfly, based again on a story by John Luther Long, the opera premiered at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, in February 1904.  This new digital…

Recital Review: Berg: Romantic To Maverick

Recital Review: Berg: Romantic To Maverick

Berg: Romantic to Maverick,  Opera Australia The Opera Centre, Sydney 3 February, 2019 Berg: Romantic to Maverick, a recital of Art Song by Alban Berg and his contemporaries, discerningly complemented Opera Australia’s presentation of Alban Berg’s epochal opera Wozzeck, currently in its season at the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House. Soprano Taryn Fiebig,…