Review: Götterdämmerung (Opera Australia)
A six-star finale to Chen Shi-Zheng’s five-star Ring Cycle sticks to the script and proves all the world loves a good bedtime story.
A six-star finale to Chen Shi-Zheng’s five-star Ring Cycle sticks to the script and proves all the world loves a good bedtime story.
In Ashleigh Wilson's new book, Transcendence, 50 artists share 50 memories across 50 years at the Sydney Opera House.
The first part of Opera Australia’s 2024 season has launched and Guest Artistic Director Lindy Hume's program is no business-as-usual proposition.
From the Olympics to opera, Àlex Ollé discusses La Fura dels Baus.
A night around the old piano is transformed into a fully-fledged exploration of humanity, with Opera Australia's world-renowned chorus in the spotlight.
Opera Australia has earned its stripes as one of the world’s leading presenters of Italian opera – a legacy outgoing Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini can fully take pride in.
The latest arts appointments and departures.
Lyndon Terracini has decided to leave his role as Artistic Director of OA at the end of October, rather than the end of 2023, to make way for his successor and focus on his own future.
Rod Sims, former Chair of the ACCC and passionate opera lover, discusses "moving the dial" at OA by increasing the number of Australian singers, doing more in Melbourne and becoming a truly national company.
Melbourne-born Artistic Director, Maurizio Scardovi, discusses the program highlights and shares his hopes for the Italian festival celebrating Bolognese composer Ottorino Respighi.
Lyndon Terracini's final season includes The Tales of Hoffmann with Jessica Pratt, Adriana Lecouvreur with Ermonela Jaho, and concert versions of La Gioconda with Jonas Kaufmann in Sydney and Philip Glass's Satyagraha in Melbourne.
A round-up of our recent news reports.
OA CEO Fiona Allan discusses the 2021 Annual Report, the challenges ahead, the new warehouse and regional opera "outpost" the company is building, and "the different beast" that OA will become from 2024.