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Editor's Choice Event Series Margaret and the Grey Mare

Sydney Festival: Margaret and the Grey Mare

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 1 Powerhouse Rd, Casula, NSW, Australia
Looking for something different? Try this one-hour immersive video opera created by visual artist Katy B Plummer and composer Sally Whitwell, with a little help from artificial intelligence programmed to speak in verse like an oracular Celtic spirit. The story, with video by filmmaker Kuba Dorabialski, evokes 17th-century European witch…
Editor's Choice Event Series Margaret and the Grey Mare

Sydney Festival: Margaret and the Grey Mare

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 1 Powerhouse Rd, Casula, NSW, Australia
Looking for something different? Try this one-hour immersive video opera created by visual artist Katy B Plummer and composer Sally Whitwell, with a little help from artificial intelligence programmed to speak in verse like an oracular Celtic spirit. The story, with video by filmmaker Kuba Dorabialski, evokes 17th-century European witch…
Editor's Choice Event Series Brisbane Bel Canto

Opera Queensland: Lucia di Lammermoor

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
The centrepiece of this bel canto festival is Patrick Nolan’s costumed concert staging of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor with star soprano Jessica Pratt. Richard Mills conducts the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and the cast includes Carlos Bárcenas as Lucia’s lover Edgardo and Sam Dundas as her brother Enrico. Pratt, a world-famous advocate for…

Event Series Kiss Me, Kate

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: Kiss Me, Kate

The Alexander Theatre 48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria presents Kiss Me, Kate, the Tony Award-winning 1940’s musical comedy from Cole Porter (Anything Goes, Fifty Million Frenchmen) with a score of witty, hummable hits paired with ridiculous Shakespearean antics from Sam and Bella Spewack (Leave It To Me!, My Three Angels). The battle of…
Event Series Kiss Me, Kate

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: Kiss Me, Kate

The Alexander Theatre 48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria presents Kiss Me, Kate, the Tony Award-winning 1940’s musical comedy from Cole Porter (Anything Goes, Fifty Million Frenchmen) with a score of witty, hummable hits paired with ridiculous Shakespearean antics from Sam and Bella Spewack (Leave It To Me!, My Three Angels). The battle of…
Event Series Kiss Me, Kate

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: Kiss Me, Kate

The Alexander Theatre 48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria presents Kiss Me, Kate, the Tony Award-winning 1940’s musical comedy from Cole Porter (Anything Goes, Fifty Million Frenchmen) with a score of witty, hummable hits paired with ridiculous Shakespearean antics from Sam and Bella Spewack (Leave It To Me!, My Three Angels). The battle of…
Event Series Kiss Me, Kate

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: Kiss Me, Kate

The Alexander Theatre 48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria presents Kiss Me, Kate, the Tony Award-winning 1940’s musical comedy from Cole Porter (Anything Goes, Fifty Million Frenchmen) with a score of witty, hummable hits paired with ridiculous Shakespearean antics from Sam and Bella Spewack (Leave It To Me!, My Three Angels). The battle of…
Event Series Kiss Me, Kate

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: Kiss Me, Kate

The Alexander Theatre 48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria presents Kiss Me, Kate, the Tony Award-winning 1940’s musical comedy from Cole Porter (Anything Goes, Fifty Million Frenchmen) with a score of witty, hummable hits paired with ridiculous Shakespearean antics from Sam and Bella Spewack (Leave It To Me!, My Three Angels). The battle of…
Event Series Opera in the Pub

Opera Bites: Opera Goes to the Movies

The Harold 70A Ross Street, Forest Lodge, NSW, Australia
Opera . . . in a pub? You heard right! Opera Bites brings best-loved opera hits to the relaxed atmosphere of your local pub. Opera Goes to the Movies - Back by popular demand! Our most requested show of 2023. Your favourite films and opera’s greatest hits - what could…
Editor's Choice Event Series Lucia di Lammermoor

Melbourne Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor

Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Following its success with the Bendigo Ring Cycle, Melbourne Opera turns its attention to one of the pinnacles of  bel canto. Donizetti’s most popular work – a well-crafted adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s Highland family drama The Bride of Lammermoor – features a string of memorable arias and, of course, the famous…
Editor's Choice Event Series Dido and Aeneas

West Australian Opera: Dido and Aeneas

Government House Ballroom, Perth 13 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
WA Opera has an original operatic experience in mind as Humphrey Bower stages an evening inspired by Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Performed amid the glamorous surrounds of the Government House Ballroom and set around a long-table-styled dinner, it’s ideal for friends. The origins of what’s often called the earliest opera in…
Editor's Choice Event Series Parrwang Lifts The Sky

Victorian Opera: Parrwang Lifts The Sky

Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon’s family opera is based on a traditional story from Wadawurrung Country explaining how a magpie created the first dawn. Long ago, the sky sat like a blanket on the land. When youngsters Tjatjarrang (Big Sister) and Koki (Brother) climb an ancient gum tree, they discover a new…

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