A New Opera Company Launches in Sydney

A New Opera Company Launches in Sydney

Sydney has a new opera company! With a name that reflects Sydney’s brilliant waterfront location and sophistication, Harbour City Opera has been founded to provide opportunities for the many talented emerging and established professionals on stage and behind the scenes to perform fully staged roles in exquisite, well produced operas. For their opening offering, Harbour City Opera is…

‘Carmen’  – Handa opera on Sydney Harbour reviewed

‘Carmen’ – Handa opera on Sydney Harbour reviewed

For a second year, Opera Australia has presented an outdoor performance located spectacularly at the Royal Botanic Gardens on the foreshores of Sydney Harbour.  Nowhere else in the world is there such a wonderful setting with Sydney’s Opera House and Harbour Bridge providing a magical backdrop, and the city lights reflecting in the waters of the…

‘Carmen’: Handa Opera on Sydney harbour – Rinat Shaham’s insights

‘Carmen’: Handa Opera on Sydney harbour – Rinat Shaham’s insights

In an overnight transformation, mezzo-soprano Milijana Nikolic has shed several decades from her persona and gone from singing the role of one doomed gypsy to another. The day after the closing performance of Il Trovatore, in which she portrayed Azucena, she was rehearsing the role of Carmen which she will sing in Handa Opera on…