Review: A Turkish Delight – Opera Australia ‘The Turk in Italy’

Review: A Turkish Delight – Opera Australia ‘The Turk in Italy’

  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…

Falstaff photo gallery

Falstaff photo gallery

Get a taste of Verdi’s rambunctious opera Verdi’s Falstaff  which opened in Sydney last Friday.  Warwick Fyfe sings the bawdy title role with Amelia Farrugia, Jacqueline Dark, Domenica Matthews, Lorina Gore, John Longmuir, Graeme McFarlane and Jud Arthur and Kanen Breen as the twin numbskulls Pistol and Bardolph adding burlesque and slapstick to their hugely demanding vocal performances….