The Rape of Lucretia, Benjamin Britten Sydney Chamber Opera/ Victorian Opera Carriageworks 19 August 2016 Written by Deen Hamaker Productions of Benjamin Britten’s operas have become a rare event in Sydney and performances of Britten’s most enigmatic work, The Rape of Lucretia, are even more rare. Last performed by The Australian Opera as part of…
Ensemble Offspring, Sydney Chamber Opera and Carriageworks present Fausto Romitelli’s stimulating electric poem An Index of Metals. With An Index of Metals, cult Italian composer, Fausto Romitelli, created a highly original work that exploded the traditional concept of opera. Think power chords, spectral sounds, virtuoso chamber music, electronic music, feedback, distortion, lights, full frontal nudity. Your…
Sydney Chamber Opera (SCO) presents the modern classic The Lighthouse by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The one-act opera with libretto by the composer, is his second and centres around three lighthouse keepers and the true story of the mysterious desertion of the Flannan Isles lighthouse in 1900. The opera opens with a prologue set…