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A two-storey structure, with separate rooms. There is a conductor at the front.
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Opera review: Innocence, Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival

A complex and multilayered production about collective guilt and trauma that deployed different languages and singing styles.

Opera for the Dead performance shot, featuring two movable stages, each with a performing standing at its centre, slightly obscured by black stingy curtains. The image is dark other than the stage being slightly illuminated from below.
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Performance review: Opera for the Dead (祭歌), Asia TOPA 2025

A cyber-opera that deserves the world stage.

A crowd scene of 'Candide'. The dancing cast is dressed in period costume. There is a faded caravan behind them.
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Opera review: Candide, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House

Bernstein’s crowd-pleasing comic operetta will have audiences laughing at the absurdity of extreme ideas.

Inside the Royal Exhibition Building.
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Opera review: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Royal Exhibition Building

Melbourne Opera stays well within its comfort zone for Wagner’s epic comedy.  

Man and woman singing tragic opera on stage. La Traviata
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Opera review: La Traviata, Opera Australia, Joan Sutherland Theatre

Soprano Samantha Clarke ignites this current production of Verdi's masterpiece.

Interior cutout of a two-storey house in a production of 'The Barber of Seville'. There are people crowded in each room.
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Opera review: The Barber of Seville, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House

Fast-paced and hilarious, Opera Australia’s 'The Barber of Seville' will please opera buffs and newcomers alike. 

Two men with heavy stage makeup. Siefgried and Roy
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Opera review: Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera, Sydney Festival

Definitely camp. Definitely a folly. This new work delivers all of opera’s hallmarks with casual appeal.

Prospero Arts and QPAC's 2024 production of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Pirates of Penzance – in Concert'. Two actors kneel on the stage, with the orchestra and conductor visible behind them. The woman wears a red and orange Victorian dress and straw hat; she is smiling broadly at a young man in a blue and yellow jacket, opened to reveal his white short and white trousers. He wears high black boots and a colourful scarf dangles from his waist.
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Performance review: The Pirates of Penzance – In Concert, QPAC

Gilbert and Sullivan at their finest in this rip-roaring crowd-pleaser, which offers an all-star cast with many musical gems.

The cast of 'Lucia di Lammermoor on stage. Large number of people in period costume.
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Opera review: Lucia di Lammermoor, Her Majesty’s Theatre

Much darkness and just a little light in State Opera South Australia’s revival of Donizetti's grim tragedy.

Five cast members of 'The Magic Flute'. They are dressed in shades of black, white and grey and are standing with their hands in the air. The grey set has an image of a moon above them.
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Opera review: The Magic Flute, Geelong Arts Centre

Disney Meets Mozart in Opera Australia’s 'The Magic Flute.'

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