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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

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.

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.

A scene from 'Cinderella' ('Cendrillon') at Royal Opera House 2011; Laurent Pelly’s production has been programmed as part of Opera Australia's 2025 Sydney season. Four performers in horse costumes draw a carriage shaped like the letter C, in which a woman in a white ball gown is singing.
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Opera Australia launches 2025 season with four musicals and homegrown talent

The national opera company’s 2025 season features a mix of accessible and canonical works.

A man has a switchblade against a woman's throat in the production of 'Sweeney Todd.'
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Opera review: Sweeney Todd, Arts Centre Melbourne

A wickedly delicious production from Victorian Opera and New Zealand Opera.

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'.
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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…

Christopher Hillier, Sky Ingram, Anna Dowsley and Nicholas Lester in modern resort lounge gear sitting and standing on steps on production of Così fan tutte.
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Opera review: Così fan tutte, Her Majesty’s Theatre

State Opera South Australia’s 'Così fan tutte' features a musical ‘six of the best’.

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.
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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.

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