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Gluck's Orpheus & Eurydice will be staged in Melbourne in 2025. Pictured are the Opera Australia Chorus and Circa in Opera Australia's 2024 production of Orpheus & Eurydice.
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ArtsHub’s 2025 season guide to the performing arts

Our rolling guide to the season announcements you may have missed.

Opera Queensland's 'La Cenerentola (Cinderella)' is the centrepiece of the 2025 Brisbane Bel Canto Festival. A fair-skinned young woman wearing an exaggerated wreath of flowers on her head stands with shoulders bared against a floral background.
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From bohemia to the outback: Opera Queensland launches its 2025 season

In-demand international coloratura soprano Sumi Jo goes bush for Opera Queensland’s Festival of Outback Opera in 2025.

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.'

woman tourist viewing painted tiles on building in Portugal. Cultural tourism
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Are you cynical about cultural tourism, but crave it?

ArtsHub takes a closer look at how tourism trends for 2025 are intersecting with museum offerings, and authentic specialist-led tours.

Three opera singers in Eucalyptus, a bushman in an Akubra, a farmer in shirt, tie and braces, and a young woman in a green dress and light blue coat. Michael Petruccelli, Simon Meadows and Desiree Frahn
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Opera review: Eucalyptus: The Opera, Palais Theatre

Jonathan Mills' opera makes its long-awaited debut in Melbourne.

Stuart Maunder, Artistic Director of Victorian Opera.
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Sondheim’s Follies and Boojum! revival feature in Victorian Opera 2025 season

Artistic Director Stuart Maunder discusses his 2025 season, which includes chamber opera, a lavish musical and a new opera for…

A bearded man is sitting in the middle surrounded by three women in the production of 'Don Giovanni.'
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Opera review: Don Giovanni, Meat Market Stables

The delivery of a BDSM centric interpretation of a classic opera is rough around the edges

Two leading women opera singers (Deborah Humble and Helena Dix) in black with a chorus on singers in the background. Puccini.
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Opera review: Puccini Gala: Suor Angelica, Athenaeum Theatre

A one-act opera and gala concert that showcases the best of Melbourne Opera talent.

The cast and ensemble of La Bohème on two levels.
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Opera review: La Bohème, Athenaeum Theatre

Despite being a tragedy, Melbourne Opera’s La Bohème is a joyful delight to watch.

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