In a special one-off event to launch its 2017 season, Opera Queensland has brought together the world of music, visual art, and dance in Sensory. With a series of live opera performances situated throughout the gallery spaces of GOMA, audiences choose their own paths through the exhibits, meaning each experience is utterly unique. Part of the GOMA Turns 10 celebrations, Sensory promises a feast for the senses.

Lindy Hume, Opera Queensland Artistic Director, describes the evening as “a dream landscape. There’s no sense of any linear narrative or logical sequence of events, but as in a dream, everything one encounters is somehow familiar, with a deep and intangible undertow”.

^{Katie Stenzel and Brendan Joyce in front of Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir’s Nervescape V. Photo © Stephanie Do Rozario}

The performers chosen for the evening’s special celebration include violinist and leader of Queensland’s chamber orchestra Camerata Brendan Joyce, Brisbane soprano Sarah Crane, and Brisbane pianist Alex Raineri. Musical highlights will include Strauss’ Die Nacht, performed by Crane and Raineri, and the Méditation from Massenet’s Thais, performed by Joyce. Richard Causer and Michelle Barnett from Expressions Dance Company will further complement the night’s...