It’s as good as Carmen can be, indoors or out. Opera Australia’s Sydney Harbour spectacle might not be pure, but it’s a visual feast and the performers are world-class.

Bach’s St Matthew Passion came to life on a Brisbane stage as superb musical drama. Crikey got into the Easter spirit with a performance last week.

What’s Todd McKenny doing on the opera stage? It’s all the fault of Jonathan Biggins and Phil Scott, who got up to no good in the Opera Australia workshop. Luckily there’s plenty of laughs.

As long as we recognise terms like genocide and ethnic cleaning with repugnant familiarity, there’ll be a place for Verdi’s forward-thinking opera. This production shows no sign of ageing.

Melbourne’s little-company-than-could presents a stirring rendition of Beethoven’s one and only opera. The production overcomes its challenges with sublime performances.

Giuseppe Verdi has rarely seemed more alive than in this startling new production, a world premiere via Opera Australia. A pretty score gives way to truly dark, truly contemporary, ideas.

Gale Edwards’ lavish production of the Puccini classic gets another run at the stuffy Sydney Opera House, with two impressive new leads to thrill fans of the work.

This is opera with life; intense, dramatic and challenging. Sydney Chamber Opera’s production of The Lighthouse was a percussive and potent work at CarriageWorks in Sydney.

Gale Edwards breathes new life into a classic biblical tale for Opera Australia. It’s confronting theatre rich with context, wit and gaudy panache.

It’s Charles and Diana all over again, really. Lucia’s self-seeking brother Enrico (which is a funny first name for a Scot, you’d have to say) has a hubby lined-up for his sis and he won’t take no for an answer. His fiefdom’s short of a quid (maybe he has Charles as a brother and he’s [...]