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![A carefully staged and rather camp photograph of two men dressed in white and lounging on a white couch. A statue of a golden lion sits beside one of the men, who are the stars of Sydney Festival's 'Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera'.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SF_Siegfried__Roy_Hero-Image-by-@-Jacqui-Manning.jpg?w=310)
What happens in Vegas comes to Sydney Festival: Siegfried & Roy opera set for world premiere
A new chamber opera about Las Vegas magicians Siegfried and Roy has been announced as the centrepiece production of the…
![Jo Davies is a grey-haired, fair-skinned, middle-aged woman wearing a grey and black scarf, a grey cardigan and a black shirt. Jo Davies has left Opera Australia under dramatic circumstances as of today.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Jo-Davies-credit-Kirstie-Young.webp?w=310)
Opera Australia Artistic Director quits over ‘differences of opinion’
Jo Davies has abruptly left Australia’s national opera company less than a year after commencing her role.
![A natural rock formation in the rough shape of a window looks out over a river and surrounding Nanda Country. Two children wearing Akubra hats sit in the window, their backs to the camera.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/nick-dunn-ObqXTSx3cVk-unsplash.jpg?w=310)
APAM heading to WA
The Australian Performing Arts Market will be hosted in Western Australia by PAC Australia in 2026, 2028 and 2030.
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Opera Australia and Pinchgut Opera announce inaugural collaboration
A story of religious devotion ending in martyrdom, Handel’s ‘Theodora’ will be staged in concert at Sydney Opera House.
![Jacqui Dark. Head of smiling woman with green eyes and blonde wavy hair against black backdrop.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Jacqui-Dark-headshot-e1696550197981.jpg?w=310)
Vale Jacqueline Dark
The 'indefatigably upbeat' Australian mezzo-soprano died this week, aged just 55.
![performing arts. Against a green and blue backdrop with small images of two women, a woman with bleached blonde hair wearing a blue hoodie holds a musical keyboard while a woman with black wavy hair and sunglasses an black and blue coat holds a typing keyboard both in three-quarter profile.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/GTC2700_FA_Hero_FlatEarthers_Website_2048x1250.jpg?w=310)
What’s in store for season 2024 in the performing arts (part three)
Continuing our round-up of season launches from companies around the country, including a three-part theatrical epic and an ambitious restaging…
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Robert Lepage opera announced for Adelaide Festival 2024
Stravinsky’s ‘The Nightingale and Other Fables’ has been programmed by Artistic Director Ruth Mackenzie CBE next year, with more tentpole…
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Victorian Opera and Opera Australia have announced their first ever collaboration
In a year that is light on OA’s Melbourne offerings, a new collaboration between it and VO offers food for…
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Opera Australia appoints Jo Davies as Artistic Director
The award-winning Welsh director will relocate to Australia in late 2023; Lindy Hume will curate an 2024 summer season in…
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$3 million bequest ensures opera award in perpetuity
A major philanthropic gift and a transition to new management will see the Australian International Opera Award renamed as the…