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Expressions of Interest - Mefistofele Children's ChorusOpera Australia is seeking to cast a Children's Chtorus for their upcoming concert performances of Mestofele as oart of their Melbourne 2022 season.
Missing the Magic of Opera?With much of Australia in lockdown, the thrill of live performance seems elusive. While we stay home and stay safe, noe is a great time t explore the riches of OA TV: Opera Australia on demand. Opera Australia on Tour
The Barber of SevilleBeyond haircuts and beard trims, this canny barber is the city's matchmaking maestro! Almaviva is wealthy and head over heels. Rosina is witty, pretty and just as smitten. She's also conveniently betrothed. They need a plan. time to call on:Fi-ga-ro! On tour: Dandenong July 15 & 16. 2022. Drum Theatre Warrnambool July 21. 2022 Lighthuse Theatre Bendigo July 23. 2022 Ulunburra Theatre Mildura July 26. 2022 Mildura Arts Centre Mooroopna August 30. 2022 Westside Performing Arts Centre NarreWarren Septemberr 1. 2022 Bunjil Place Frankston Sept4ember 3. 2022 Frankston Arts Centre Sale September 13. 2022 The Wedge. New South Wales Dates & venues: Wagga Wagga July 28. 2022 Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre Griffith July 30. 2022 Griffith Regional Theatre Bathurst August 2. 2022 Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre Orange August 3. 2022 Orange Civic Theatre Dubbo August 5. 2022 Dubbo Regional Theatre Tamworth August 8. 2022 Tamworth Capital Theatre Port Macquarie August 13. 2022 Glasshouse Murwillumbah August 16. 2022 Murwillumbah Cvic and culteral Centre Wollongong August 19 & 20. 2022 Illawara Performing Arts Centre Newcastle August 25. 2022 Newcastle Civic Theatre Wyong August 27. 2022 The Art House Tasmanian Dates & venues: Hobart September 7 & 8. 2022 Theatre Royal Launceston September 10. 2022 Princess Theatre Australian Capital Territory Dates & venues: Canberra September 17. 2022 Canberra Theartre Centre
Get the Party Started with some Boozy TunesFor at least 10,000 years people have been getting tipsy, bending the elbow and waking up woth a head full of rocks. It figures that songs about booze date back almost as far. But did you know that opera has a genre of fabulous drinking songs all of its own? It's one thing to listen to a recording, it's another experience this joyous tune live with a full orchestra and chorus. (click on find out ) Find out for yourself this May when the State Theatre is transformed into the salons of 19th century Paris.
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2021 GrantIn thse more than unusual times, with entertainment venues and cultural organisations closing down and cancelling thier programs, you have no doubt been wondering whether the GERMAN-AUSTRALIAN OPERA GRANT is still operating.
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The IncidentA BRAND NEW OPERA ACO is thrilled to aannonce award-winning composer William Barton will compose ACOCO's first major commission - a 2-act opera called The Iincident. It is still in the earlly vreative phrase so the company can't reveal much -yet! What the Company can share is that it centrs on an Australian story rie for telling, and one that will engage and excite audiences about the role of contemporary opera in Australia and the world. Book of LongingAn evening-length work of poetry, music and image based on Leonard's book of 2006. Humorous self parody, romantic longing, spiritual striving - a sampling of Cohen's poems that touch on romance, biography, balladry, the dharma, limericks and rhymes. Joy HesterIn the 1940s Joy Hester (1920 - 1967) moved n the exalted company of Albert Tucker (her husband), Sydney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, John Percecal, Charles Blackman, writers Max Morris, and Barrett Reid, and imortantly, the art patrons and philanthropists John and Sunday Reid. The Secret KingdomThe Secret Kingdom apotheosizes the simple life, submission to Nature, Joy in little things, and the renunciation of ambition, time and story. The composer wanted to say "no" to modern civilization. which, he felt, consisted of dehumanized haste, degrading commercialization, and hopeless universal corruption. The LoserA complex and unsettling piece about talent, jealousy and genius, The Loser, based on the book by thomas Bernhard is grought to lifeby a single baritone voice and string quartet. To Hell and BackA smart and ground-breaking work which tales a modern Baroque orchestra, opera and music theatre into an intimate drama of relationship damage due to family violence3, beautiful, riveting, hopeful and unforgettable. The Magic MelodicaThanks to Barrie Kosky and Komiache Opera Berlin, Finnish writer Minna Lindgren cof Lavender Ladies Detective Agency fame and classical- jazz sensation, pianist and composer, Bro Mantala have written The Magic Melodica, as uproarsly dneeky cpmecy. where our favourite charactes have aged - some of them disgracelly.
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The Rise and Fall of the City of MahagonnyComposed by Weill between 1927-1930 during one of the most turbulent, but also artistically creative, periods and places in modern history - Berlin during the Weimer Republic, this opera lays bare a society in which love has become commoidified and transactional, where the natural environment is exploited to destruction, ane where inequality rules. The mkusic, including several well-known "hits", straddle avant-garde classic, popular and jazz idioms to masterful effect. |
The Rise and Fall of the City of MahagonnyComposed by Weill between 1927-1930 during one of the most turbulent, but also artistically creative, periods and places in modern history - Berlin during the Weimer Republic, this opera lays bare a society in which love has become commoidified and transactional, where the natural environment is exploited to destruction, ane where inequality rules. The mkusic, including several well-known "hits", straddle avant-garde classic, popular and jazz idioms to masterful effect. |
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Orpheus in the UnderworldUnlike other composers, Offenbach gave the story a farcical twist in his version of Orpheus and Eurydice, though married to each other, are amicably living separate lives, each blissfully occupied with a new lover. Like Eurydice in the original Greek story, Offenbach's heroine is fatally bitten bgy a snake but, rather than dying tragically, she is willing relocates to the Underworld to be with Pluto - the ruler of the Underworld - who in a mortal form had becone her lover while she was alive. In Offenbach's version Orpheus acts to retrieve Eurydice much against his will. Both he and Eurydice are pleased when his attempt fails.
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Celebrating 15 YearsVictorian Opera celebrates 15 years of being the State Opera company. They are proud of everything they have achieved the performances given and the 32 new worls they have xommissioned since the formation of the company on October 6, 2005.
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La BohèmeOn a freezing Christmas Eve, love sparks. Two hands meet in the dark and four friends' lives change forever. Experinxe the romance of the original bohemian love story. When Mimi meets Rodolfo, it's love at first touch. they head out to bustling, Café where the feisty Musetta and Marcello rekindle their relationship. But even the deepest love can't warm a freezing winter. The bohemians have some growing up to do/
TurandotAs the moon rises, a death cry wails through imprial Peking. Torture and death mean nothing. Freedom means everything. Can the princess win her heart's desire? When Pavarotti sang out the top B in Puccini's Nessun dorma across a huge crowd at the 1990 FIFA world cup, the world collectively held its breath. A generation of football fans were learning what opera was all about - music that can transport you to another world, another place,, a place where emotion wells up inside you at the sound of a single note. Vencerò, the tenor cries - "I will win! I will WIN!" Marriage of FigaroA chaotic whirlwind if mistakken identities makes the wedding day of Figaro and Susanna a lesson on hilarity. Wih a witty, fast-moving libretto and hum-along melodies, it's easy to see wy Mozart's classic comedy continuies to charm audiences the world over. OtelloA flawed hero. An innocent woman. A masterful villain.
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State Opera of South AustraliaThe Turn of the ScrewA gothic horror that leaves a lingering feeling of unease in the mind. The Turn of the Screw is a question of nature versus nuture. A young governess moves into a grand country house to care for two young children and encounters forces far greater than her. Fleeting glances, strange goings on, it's enough to make you mad! VossFor the first time n 30 years Voss will once more take Australia by storm as a spectacular stage concert directed by Stuart Mander. Rivhard Meale's epic score is brought to life by Samuel Dundas as Voss and Emma Pearson as Laura. Adelaide symphony Orchestra and State Opera Chorus under the baton of Victorian Opera's Artistic Director, Richard Mills.
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