OZ OPERA

Opera Australia's Oz Opera is the touring arm of the Company. It performs in communities both large and small across Australia. Oz Opera prides itself on giving people young and old their first experience of opera.

Each year Oz Opera presents a national tour of a fully-staged opera, specially designed to tour to metropolitan, regional and remote communities across Australia.

Oz Opera's Schools Company gives around 400 performances a year in metropolitan and regional schools in Victoria and NSW. Each year this enables between 60,000 to 80,000 primary aged students to experience the magic of opera in their very own classrooms.

The Schools Company programme has been touring for over twenty years and has provided first time access to opera to over one million students.

In 2013 Oz Opera presents three productions:

• A fully-staged, touring production of Mozart's Don Giovanni travels to metropolitan, remote and regional locations across VIC, SA, QLD, NT, WA and NSW.
• The Oz Opera Schools Company will take The Magic Flute to schools in New South Wales.
• The Oz Opera Schools Company will take The Barber of Seville to schools in Victoria.

Oz Opera is supported by Playing Australia, the Australian Government's national performing arts touring program, and through the Opera Conference, the national partnership of professional opera companies which is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Read key facts about Oz Opera

View current Regional Tour details

View current Oz Opera schools performances

For more information about Oz Opera, please contact us at:

The Opera Centre
PO Box 389
South Melbourne VIC 3205
T: +61 3 9685 3777
F: +61 3 9686 1441
E: ozopera@opera-australia.org.au