Category: Opera
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The Pirates of Penzance, or the Slave of Duty (Hayes) ★★★★
Respectful yet irreverent, these pirates might surprise you.
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Looking Ahead to the 2025 Season
Sydney’s major theatre companies have announced their 2025 seasons and there is a lot to pick over.
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Gilgamesh (Carriageworks) ★★★½
Gilgamesh is a feast of visual imagination, utterly stunning to behold.
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Hamlet (Opera Australia) ★★★★
It’s nice to see another fresh piece spice up the Opera Australia repertoire.
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Master Class (Ensemble) ★★★½
Famed soprano Maria Callas is played, mostly, for laughs in Terrence McNally’s Tony Award winning play, giving Lucia Mastrantone the chance to work the room and terrorise her fellow performers.
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Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan (Sydney Opera House) ★★★★
If you’re a student of queer Australian history, this is an enlightening look at our own story. For lovers of choral work, it’s a fresh Australian piece. With so few performances I’d urge you to rush out and see it.
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Interview: Watershed’s Historical Consultant Tim Reeves & Co-Librettist Alana Valentine.
Tim Reeves, the show’s Historical Consultant, and playwright Alan Valentine, the show’s co-librettist, took some time out to help set the scene and answer some questions about the Adelaide Festival hit.
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Track Works (Mortuary Station) ★★★1/2
Chances are you’ve driven, or caught a train past, Mortuary Station. You’ve probably caught a flash of the architecture as you sped past or maybe you’ve seen photoshoots for brands staged there. Well now you can hear some classic arie while gazing at the stonework in a new, site-specific show called Track Works.
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Looking Ahead to 2024 – Final Update!
Judging by the announced theatrical seasons, 2024 is looking pretty stacked with great stuff on our stages. I’ve done a bit of a dive into the seasons for Sydney Theatre Co., Belvoir, Ensemble, Griffin, Opera Australia, Hayes, Seymour Center and more to make some plans.
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Sibyl (Sydney Opera House) ★★★★
South African, multidisciplinary artist William Kentridge has an eye-opening Australian premiere to close out the Sydney Opera Houses’s 50th birthday celebrations. Sibyl demonstrates Kentridges “Gesamtkunstwerk”, his blend of forms to deliver a message. Encompassing hand-drawn animation, dance, song, shadow-play, physical comedy, sculpture and more, it is revelatory and truly expansive.
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