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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.

Performance review: Opera for the Dead (祭歌), Asia TOPA 2025
A cyber-opera that deserves the world stage.

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.

Opera review: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Royal Exhibition Building
Melbourne Opera stays well within its comfort zone for Wagner’s epic comedy.

Opera review: La Traviata, Opera Australia, Joan Sutherland Theatre
Soprano Samantha Clarke ignites this current production of Verdi's masterpiece.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Opera review: The Magic Flute, Geelong Arts Centre
Disney Meets Mozart in Opera Australia’s 'The Magic Flute.'