Five hundred amateur singers in 15 choirs from Spanish, Vietnamese, Italian, Arabic, French, Chinese, Portuguese, German and Korean communities around Sydney, will join together and perform as one in the culmination of Opera Australia’s Community Choirs project for 2014. Since its inception in 2012, more than twice the number of singers have joined Opera Australia’s…
The Turk in Italy, G Rossini, libretto by Felice Romani after the libretto by Caterino Mazzola Opera Australia, Wednesday January 22nd If Rossini’s opera The Turk in Italy (Il Turco in Italia) were set in present times, the long sea voyage undertaken by Selim the Turk, eventually landing with his entourage on a…
Opera Australia’s new production of Rossini’s The Turk in Italy opens tonight in Sydney. Here’s a sneak peek at what to expect. Images by Lisa Tomasetti, courtesy Opera Australia. Scroll down for all 8 images.