Turandot: re-working lifts opera to new heights

Giacomo Puccini is rightly acclaimed for so many brilliant operas, and for many of the arias and duets in his less successful works. Read more

New stars create another success for the world’s favourite opera

There will always be carping critics complaining about Opera Australia repeating once more the world’s most played 0pera, Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece “La Boheme”…writes Victor Grynberg. Read more

Keshet Eilon Australian Friends Launched With A Stunning Performance

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The Turk in Italy: an Opera review by Victor Grynberg

2 parts Rossini + 1 part Phillips = a sparkling cocktail. Read more

Aida…spectacular and phenomenal: an opera review by Victor Grynberg

The reader may think this headline refers to the much-anticipated digital set for this new production of Verdi’s great opera by Opera Australia. Read more

Rigoletto: Tragedy and melody in triumph: an opera review by Victor Grynberg

This 17^th of the 37 operas that Verdi wrote, arguably has the best score of all his masterpieces. Read more

Singers shine in Lucia di Lammermoor: an opera review by Victor Grynberg

Exquisite singing was the memorable takeout of the re-staging of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House. Read more

Anne-Sophie Mutter with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra: a music review by Victor Grynberg

On her third visit in just six years, arguably the world’s leading violinist, Anne-Sophie Mutter clearly wanted to share her ability with a delighted Sydney audience. Read more

La Bohème: Puccini’s masterpiece of love and loss transfers superbly to Sydney Harbour – reviewed by Victor Grynberg.

This is the sixth opera  since Opera Australia commenced their Operas on the Harbour in 2012 with Carmen repeated last year. Read more

Magnificent Ferruccio Furlanetto lives and dies a great “Don Quichotte”: an opera review by Victor Grynberg

After much anticipation, and a non-appearance on opening night due to indisposition, Sydney finally saw the great Ferruccio Furlanetto in the role for which, world-wide he has appeared  and received rave reviews about. Read more

La Superba: Nicole Car’s triumph in La Traviata..a review by Victor Grynberg

Since the all -conquering Nellie Melba, Australia  has had an enviable record of producing world-class sopranos for over 100 years. Read more

Kosky’s genius brings hilarity to an opera farce: The Nose – an opera review by Victor Grynberg

 

Based on a novel by Gogol, Shostakovich’s opera The Nose is as ridiculous a story as ever seen in opera. Read more

Rinat and company star in dazzling Carmen – an opera review by Victor Grynberg

It was a lot more than Israeli Carmen superstar Rinat Shaham and the glorious music of Georges Bizet that prompted the audience to rise as one for a rapturous standing ovation at the premiere last Saturday night. Read more

This widow made her audience merry…an operetta review by Victor Grynberg

There were high expectations for the new production of Franz Lehar’s biggest hit The Merry Widow when it opened in Melbourne in November. Read more

Madama Butterfly: an opera review by Victor Grynberg

Last July Victoria’s Minister for Creative Arts, (in)famously accused Opera Australia of being happy to have an audience that will “die in their seats”. Read more

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