Barrie Kosky’s new production of the rarely performed Shostakovich classic The Nose, for Opera Australia, premieres in Sydney this summer, following its critically acclaimed debut at the Royal Opera in London in 2017. A co-production with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden and Berlin’s Komische Oper, The Nose was widely praised described by The Spectator as…
Opera Australia’s Sydney winter concert series continues with one of the world’s most powerful choral works, Verdi’s Requiem, conducted by Renato Palumbo with Italian soprano Serena Farnocchia, mezzo-soprano Milijana Nikolic, tenor Diego Torre, Italian bass Roberto Scandiuzzi, the Opera Australia Chorus and the Opera Australia Orchestra. Full of the passion and drama of opera, Verdi’s Requiem is…
Soprano Nicole Car celebrates a triumphant return to Australia with a starring role in a concert presentation of Massenet’s opera Thaïs in Sydney’s Town Hall. Nicole is one of Australia’s most exciting opera singers, with critically acclaimed performances in Luisa Miller at the Sydney Opera House and Eugene Onegin at Covent Garden, and the release of…