CinemaLive, Opera Australia and Sydney Opera House are excited to announce the return of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s renowned opera, Don Giovanni that has been filmed live at Sydney Opera House in high definition and will be delivered to cinemas across Australia from February 10th 2012.

Re-imagined as a sumptuous family spectacle, The Magic Flute delights with a cavalcade of glorious images.

Opera Australia presents The Magic Flute, based on the staging by Julie Taymor for the Metropolitan Opera.

Sydney: 5 January - 23 March 2012

Opera Australia’s new production of The Magic Flute had its final dress rehearsal today ahead of opening night this Friday 6 January. The Melbourne season commences on 21 April.

Savoy Opera Company presents...

The licentious anti-hero we, for the most part, cannot help being drawn to, Don Giovanni, stalks and weaves his ominous spell once again on the stage of the State Theatre. Opera Australia’s very successful Don Giovanni by Mozart has been resurrected with Teddy Tahu Rhodes storming his way magnificently through this demanding operatic role. It is a captivating performance, passionate, well acted and sung with control and finesse.

CinemaLive, Opera Australia and Sydney Opera House are excited to announce the first cinema screening of the luscious Hindu-inspired opera, Lakmé, captured live at Sydney Opera House in high definition. Awash with the colours, sights and sensations of India, Lakmé features Australia’s favourite soprano Emma Matthews and is in cinemas from December 2nd.

There’s a moment in Griselda when the audience is meant to clap, to applaud and show their appreciation for the splendor on display, and yet on the opening night this didn’t happen, and there was only silence.  It wasn’t that my fellow spectators were stunned into a submissive torpor by a performance destined for the record books (either positively or negatively), nor was it that some mysterious and rather immature divine force had deigned to reach down from their heavenly cloud and transform everyone’s hands into fist-sized throw cushions.  No, it was a garage door that did the trick.

I Have Had Enough

A staged double bill:
J S BACH: CANTATA NO 82 “ICH HABE GENUG”
JACK SYMONDS: NUNC DIMITTIS (world premiere)*