La Rondine

A Melbourne opera review by Alex First Read more

A conversation with conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya

Lidiya Yankovskaya left her home city of St Petersburg in 1995 to seek a new home with her family in Albany, New York, escaping the rampant antisemitism sweeping the Russian city. Read more

Mozart opera has its Sydney premiere

Opera Australia and Victorian Opera’s exciting new co-production by Lindy Hume of Mozart’s Idomeneo will have its Sydney Premiere at the Joan Sutherland Theatre, opening on 20 February and running to 15 March. Read more

Verdi’s masterpiece La Traviata in best production ever

An Opera review by Victor Grynberg Read more

The Tales of Hoffmann

An opera review by Murray Dahm Read more

Idomeneo: an opera review by Alex First

Superb staging is a hallmark of Mozart’s dramatic opera Idomeneo, set on the island of Crete shortly after the Trojan War. Read more

Opera Australia showcases premiere of Adriana Lecouvreur

The Australian premiere of acclaimed Italian director Rosetta Cucchi’s production of Adriana Lecouvreur will feature an outstanding quartet of some of the world’s most extraordinary opera singers when it opens at the Sydney Opera House on Monday. Read more

Phantom of the Opera: Murray Dahm talks with Naomi Johns

Naomi Johns was very excited to be involved in her first-ever Opera Australia publicity when I spoke with her ahead of the opening night of Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour’s Phantom of the Opera production which opens tonight. Read more

La Juive: an opera about the forbidden love between a Jewish woman and Christian man

After pandemic restrictions shut down its scheduled opening in 2020, acclaimed French director Olivier Py’s new production of La Juive will finally have its Australian premiere at the Sydney Opera House, this coming March. Read more

$20 tickets for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House for years 11 & 12 students

Opera Australia has partnered with The Bourne Foundation to offer year 11 and 12 students $20 tickets to see Puccini’s Turandot and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro during its summer season at the Sydney Opera House. Read more

La Traviata for $4

More than 400,000 people have been to Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour since it launched in 2012 and to celebrate this milestone Opera Australia is offering 400 tickets for just $4 each to its 2020 production of La Traviata. Read more

Faust: McVicar’s devilish take on classic opera…an opera review by Victor Grynberg

One of France’s greatest ever composers, Charles Gounod had an immediate hit on his hands when his opera Faust finally premiered in Paris in 1859. Read more

Elena Kats-Chernin opera “Whitely” to be premiered next month

Opera Australia’s newly commissioned work about the turbulent life of iconic Australian artist Brett Whiteley and his vivacious wife Wendy will have its world premiere at the Sydney Opera House on 15 July 2019.

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Saluting Hitler in Tosca

Imagine being Jewish and having to give the Nazi salute in front of hundreds of people. This is the discomfiting challenge faced by Sitiveni Talei in Opera Australia’s 2014 production of Tosca. Read more

Metropolitan Opera Stifles Free Exchange of Ideas About a Propaganda Opera…writes Alan Dershowitz

On Monday night I went to the Metropolitan Opera. I went for two reasons: to see and hear John Adams’ controversial opera, The Death of Klinghoffer; and to see and hear what those protesting the Met’s judgment in presenting the opera had to say. Read more

Art meets Greed

So what is art anyway?…asks Rabbi Laibl Wolf. Read more

Diaspora Jews a soft target…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

Next week, the opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” opens in New York. Read more