OPERA AUSTRALIA 2012 SEASON
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Welcome to a world where animals dance and children fly, where princes battle dragons and hope battles despair. Welcome to two hours of magic for the whole family.
Giacomo Puccini
Puccini’s great masterpiece returns in Graeme Murphy’s celebrated production. Full of bold choreography and dizzying arias, this is romantic opera at its intoxicating best.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Figaro and Susanna are getting married, and it is going to be a crazy day. One of Australia’s brightest minds of the theatre, director Benedict Andrews, takes a new look at a revolutionary classic.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It is a beautiful day for romance, and two young couples are about to get some lessons in love. This bittersweet comedy is Mozart at his most intimate. Jim Sharman’s sparkling production is opera at its most playful.
Gioachino Rossini
Jose Carbo stars in Elijah Moshinsky’s much-loved production of Rossini’s madcap romantic comedy. See Figaro transported back to the world of silent movies, with Buster Keaton stunts, Keystone Kops chases, and Rossini’s glorious, helter-skelter music leading the charge.
Franz Lehár
Amelia Farrugia and David Hobson star in a sumptuous new production of the world’s favourite operetta. There will be song and dance and lots of fabulous frocks. And will Hanna and Danilo stop squabbling for long enough to realise that they are in love? Let’s hope so.
Erich Korngold
A ground-breaking new production, directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Stefan Vinke and Cheryl Barker. Discover what opera in the twenty-first century can be, as we use new technology to create cinematic sounds and on-stage special effects.
Georges Bizet
Masks and veils, fire and water, gold and silver… Experience Bizet’s captivating imaginings of Ancient Ceylon, and hear one of the world’s favourite opera moments, ‘In the depths of the temple’, in this glorious tale of forbidden love.
Giuseppe Verdi
Graeme Murphy’s production is back with blazing voices and glittering pageantry. This is grand opera in all its glory.
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Teddy Tahu Rhodes heads an all-star company. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s twentieth-century classic is in Sydney for just four weeks. Don’t miss this joyous Broadway production, which swept the 2008 Tony Awards.
Giacomo Puccini
An exquisite production, Japanese soprano Hiromi Omura in the title role, and Puccini’s desperately romantic music… When Butterfly sings you will fall in love with opera, whether it’s for the first time, or the fiftieth. We promise.
Gaetano Donizetti
Emma Matthews stars in a new production of Donizetti’s great bel canto showpiece. Expect vocal fireworks from an international cast in this atmospheric take on Sir Walter Scott’s thrilling tale.
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss’s Salome caused a sensation when it premiered. It has been shocking and enthralling audiences ever since. Now Gale Edwards directs a new production starring Cheryl Barker as the ultimate femme fatale.
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