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Ross Noble Jabber Jabber Jamboree

To cvelebrate his milestoe, ross invites you to join him for an evening of the sort of inpired nonsense that has cemented his place as the supreme aster of stream -of-conscios, freewheeling stand-up.
This is a chance to see Noble on stage, in his natural habitat. What is it about? What will we learn? How will it change the world? These are all pointless questions to ask when Noble id off on one of his tangents.
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The Ring Cycle Culteral Festival

The Festival presents three Ring Cycles alongside recitals featuring star- soingers, gala dinners on stage, talks, exhibitions and a full day Wagner symposium. All four Ring operas will be staged in full at the acoustically impressive Ulumbarra Theatre. Drawing attention from international opera lovers, over half the full cycle ticjets have alrady been sold, including 30% to interstate and international buyers.
The not-for-profit organisation's 45 million production will employ over250 Australian singers, musicians, creatives and technicians. The exclusively regional production is expected to drive major toerism to Bendigo with three full Ring Cycles performed over six weeks.
Australian opera goers and curious audience members have a final chance to preview Melbourne Opera's Ring Cycle vi a special Sunday performance od Siegfried in Concert. The cnert features ther 90-piece Melbourne POpera Orchestra, and directly follows Wagner specialist conductor Negus' highly successful productions of Die Walkûre with the English National Opera at Lodon's famed Colosseum and at his famous Longborough Festival Opera.
A superb Australian cast has been assembled for Siegdried in Concert with Warwick Fyfe as Wotan, Lee Abrahmson as Brunnhilde, Simon Meadows as Albrich, Deborah Hummble as Erda, Steven Gallop as Fafner, Bradley Daley as Sigfried, Rebecca Rashleigh as Woodbird andd Robert Macfarlane as Mime.
Anthony Negus describes how Siegfried's score referneces The Ring's first opera Das Rheingold, which he travelled to Australia to direct at the regent Theatre in February 2021.
"The mysterious opening over a long deep timpani roll and Mime's bgrooding bassoon leads into a reliving of the great build-up in rheingold scene four, where the gold is brought up to wotan and Loge by the Nibelungs.
Siegfried follws a quest for identity, culminating in the thrid act,"there is an enormous exhileration to this closing scene in which Brunnhilde's resistance is finally conquered, and the mountain top is bathed in blazing C major light," says Negus."
The Ring Cycle Cultural Festival features an all-Australian cst accompanied by internationally acclaimmed singers, and led by creatively gifted director, Suzanne Chaundy. Suzanne is excited to crown her immense staggered staging of Wanger's epic Ring with an even bigger undertaking, a seaswon of three full cucles. She discusses her direction of Siegried, ahead of the concert performence.
" Siegfried emerges - both literally and meataphorically - from darkness to light as he pieces togetner who he is and meets his destiny. We will tell this tale as an adult fairy tale. full of mythical horror and deep-seatd psychological yearning "says Chanudy.
Wagner's Ring totals 17 hours of stage time aross four operas, and is known to be the inspiration behind many great themes, stories and soundtracks acrss the ages. The plot is understood to have inspired Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and the score inckudes highlights such as Siegfreid's Rhine Journey and Funeral March. Wotan's Farewell and the infamous Ride of teh Valkyries, known to modern audiences as Apocalypse Now.
Eadh cycle will be performmed over two weeks at the Ulumbarra Theatre ensouraging longer stays in bnedigo region, which has hosted a a range of internatonalarts and cultural exhibitions and evnets in rexent years.
"}Season: March 24 - April 30. 2023.

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