Event Series The Visitors

Victorian Opera: The Visitors

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
We join seven Aboriginal Elders in 1788 as they meet ‘The Visitors’. Imbued with Aboriginal customs, melody and humour from composer Christopher Sainsbury and libretto by original playwright and Muruwari woman, Jane Harrison, it tells the story of the early days of colonialism and its impacts on the First Peoples.…
Event Series The Visitors

Victorian Opera: The Visitors

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
We join seven Aboriginal Elders in 1788 as they meet ‘The Visitors’. Imbued with Aboriginal customs, melody and humour from composer Christopher Sainsbury and libretto by original playwright and Muruwari woman, Jane Harrison, it tells the story of the early days of colonialism and its impacts on the First Peoples.…
Event Series The Visitors

Victorian Opera: The Visitors

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
We join seven Aboriginal Elders in 1788 as they meet ‘The Visitors’. Imbued with Aboriginal customs, melody and humour from composer Christopher Sainsbury and libretto by original playwright and Muruwari woman, Jane Harrison, it tells the story of the early days of colonialism and its impacts on the First Peoples.…

Editor's Choice Event Series Galileo

Victorian Opera: Galileo

Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Richard Mills signs off after 10 years at the helm of Victorian Opera conducting his brand-new opera exploring the life and times of the Renaissance polymath Galileo Galilei. Born the son of a famous Florentine lutenist, Galileo developed the telescope, discovered the moons of Jupiter and was involved in various cutting-edge scientific and astronomical theories until falling foul of the Catholic Church and forced to…

Editor's Choice Event Series Il Tabarro

Victorian Opera: Il Tabarro

Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, Darling Harbour, NSW, Australia
Sydney Festival brings two innovative, site-specific performances to the harbour. An underrated tale of adultery and murder set on a Parisian barge, Il tabarro is the first part of Puccini’s Il trittico. Constantine Costi – never short of an idea – updates the action to Depression-era Sydney, staging it on The Carpentaria, a historic lightship…
Editor's Choice Event Series Il Tabarro

Victorian Opera: Il Tabarro

Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, Darling Harbour, NSW, Australia
Sydney Festival brings two innovative, site-specific performances to the harbour. An underrated tale of adultery and murder set on a Parisian barge, Il tabarro is the first part of Puccini’s Il trittico. Constantine Costi – never short of an idea – updates the action to Depression-era Sydney, staging it on The Carpentaria, a historic lightship…
Editor's Choice Event Series Il Tabarro

Victorian Opera: Il Tabarro

Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, Darling Harbour, NSW, Australia
Sydney Festival brings two innovative, site-specific performances to the harbour. An underrated tale of adultery and murder set on a Parisian barge, Il tabarro is the first part of Puccini’s Il trittico. Constantine Costi – never short of an idea – updates the action to Depression-era Sydney, staging it on The Carpentaria, a historic lightship…
Editor's Choice Event Series Il Tabarro

Victorian Opera: Il Tabarro

Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, Darling Harbour, NSW, Australia
Sydney Festival brings two innovative, site-specific performances to the harbour. An underrated tale of adultery and murder set on a Parisian barge, Il tabarro is the first part of Puccini’s Il trittico. Constantine Costi – never short of an idea – updates the action to Depression-era Sydney, staging it on The Carpentaria, a historic lightship…

Editor's Choice Event Series Candide

Victorian Opera: Candide

Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Leonard Bernstein’s dazzling score makes up for a convoluted plot that went through more incarnations than Doctor Who (despite a brilliant patchwork of lyrics by the likes of Stephen Sondheim, Lillian Hellman and Dorothy Parker). Voltaire’s tale of lost innocence and the painful realisation that all may not be for…
Editor's Choice Event Series Candide

Victorian Opera: Candide

Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Leonard Bernstein’s dazzling score makes up for a convoluted plot that went through more incarnations than Doctor Who (despite a brilliant patchwork of lyrics by the likes of Stephen Sondheim, Lillian Hellman and Dorothy Parker). Voltaire’s tale of lost innocence and the painful realisation that all may not be for…
Editor's Choice Event Series Candide

Victorian Opera: Candide

Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Leonard Bernstein’s dazzling score makes up for a convoluted plot that went through more incarnations than Doctor Who (despite a brilliant patchwork of lyrics by the likes of Stephen Sondheim, Lillian Hellman and Dorothy Parker). Voltaire’s tale of lost innocence and the painful realisation that all may not be for…
Editor's Choice

Victorian Opera: Eucalyptus

Perth Concert Hall 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
Wundig wer Wilura is a new Noongar language opera by Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse that tells a tale from the Dreaming of star-crossed lovers. Wundig, a handsome hunter from the Hills people, is smitten with Wilura, a beautiful young woman from the Grass people, but true love doesn’t go…