Musicals such as The King and I bring the crowds – but should a state-funded opera company be staging them? Photo: Brian Geach. Opera Australia Why is Opera Australia staging The King and I? The ...
As a schoolboy, I had always wanted to work in theatre of some sort. Opera was not my first choice but, as fate would have it, I landed a job as a young management accountant at The Australian Opera ...
The young soprano is one of seven recruits whose talent, commitment and infectious enthusiasm for the artform may excite a ...
The world-renowned show will debut at the Sydney Opera House this September before heading to Melbourne in November.
Quite apart from the involving story and the attractive score that draws on popular and operatic styles was the novel concept of a “silent opera”, in which the audience heard the music and singers ...
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s famed Opera Ghost will haunt the harbour again next year as The Phantom of the Opera returns to launch the production’s 40th anniversary. The new adaptation of Phantom was first ...