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Shadow interpreters help bring Oz Opera to deaf audiences
Shadow interpreters get in on the action in the Oz Opera Victorian production of The Barber of Seville. Photo: Albert ComperMaking opera accessible to deaf children was always going to be a challenge,...
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Dinner and ... the opera? Jan Gundlach gives his take on food and the arts
Jan GundlachBy Jennifer WilliamsAfter a gruelling day in the kitchen as an apprentice, Jan Gundlach’s masterchef would often drag his team to the opera, and follow up the experience with an elaborate...
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Gyton Grantley talks all things South Pacific and the transition from screen...
Gyton Grantley in South Pacific in Brisbane last year. Photo by: Kurt SneddonThere’s some distance between the gritty laneways of Melbourne and the sunny shores of the South Pacific, but Underbelly...
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Svetla Vassileva on passion and privilege, the Australian lifestyle and The...
Svetla VassilevaSvetla Vassileva was just four years old when she declared to her parents that she wanted to be an opera singer. “I can’t explain why, but obviously the opera was already inside me,”...
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Queens birthday list honours opera professionals
Opera is a spectacle for all the senses, but it takes an army of people to produce a single performance. The Queen’s Birthday Honours list singled out a few respected Australian arts professionals for...
View ArticleRing Cycle broadcast enables you to be a part of the biggest opera event of...
ABC Classic FM have partnered with Opera Australia to broadcast live The Melbourne Ring Cycle 2013 across the nation in December.After tickets to the landmark new production of Wagner’s epic sold out...
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A rousing chorus for music master Michael Black
Chorus Master Michael Black with the Opera Australia ChorusPhoto by: Ben SymonsOutgoing Chorus Master Michael Black has one piece of advice for the man that will step into his shoes: “Concentrate on...
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A Q&A with the gentle charmer, tenor Yonghoon Lee
Yonghoon Lee’s story is as unconventional as it is unlikely: a singer in his church choir, the Korean tenor sought out singing lessons just to sound better. “I never ever thought, ‘I'm going to be a...
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A season of light and dark, new and old at Opera Australia this winter
Lyndon TerraciniPhoto by Peter DerrettOpera Australia's Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini wrote this piece for Fine Music Magazine describing the five different operas on offer this winter. He also...
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Clear as a Bell: a dramatic master takes on Puccini's masterpiece
By Jennifer WilliamsIn the middle of a raging sea of activity stands John Bell: calm, still, focussed. Around him, mechanics rush around making notes and lists and testing door handles on set pieces....
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Workshops connect high school students with Opera Australia principals and...
Trombonist Gregory van der Struik tutors Ballarat High School Students via video-conferenceThere’s a delay of about three seconds before the Ballarat High School students start smiling and laughing, in...
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Don't miss the Oz Opera Schools Company performing outside the classroom
The Oz Opera Schools Company is taking Opera outside the classroom this school holidays.Don't miss Oz Opera Victorian Schools Company performing The Barber of SevilleThe Barber of SevilleFriday 5 July...
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Pietari Inkinen to conduct The Melbourne Ring Cycle 2013
Pietari InkinenOpera Australia has announced Pietari Inkinen will replace Richard Mills as conductor of The Melbourne Ring Cycle 2013. Inkinen will join Opera Australia for the first orchestral...
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Guest post: Local craftswoman Queen B on making the pillar candles for Tosca
The Opera Australia Chorus light the stunning pillar candles made by Queen B in the first Act of Tosca.A GUEST POST BY CATE BURTON - Queen Bee of the Queen B HiveWhen a bee flew into the studio, the...
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On the road: Jonathan Abernethy on tour with Oz Opera's Don Giovanni
Jonathan Abernethy is part of the Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artist Program. He is currently on tour with Oz Opera, taking Don Giovanni around Australia.A sneaky Instagram shot taken by fellow castmate...
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South Pacific and the "crackle of a good show"
Lisa McCune as Nellie ForbushPicture: Kurt SneddonThere’s something about a success. Something you can feel when you know you’re onto a good thing. Something in the air of the rehearsal studio, on the...
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Five weeks with Oz Opera
This is a guest post written by Sumita Menon, who interned at Oz Opera this Autumn.There’s nothing quite like a cast of professional opera singers and a small chamber orchestra performing ‘Happy...
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Can opera singers be funny? Conal Coad and Rachelle Durkin on truth in comedy
Conal Coad's Don Pasquale fails to impress Rachelle Durkin's feisty NorinaConal Coad and Rachelle Durkin are wearing matching jumpers on the day we meet in the Sydney Opera House Green Room, but they...
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Deborah Humble on singing Wagner around the world
Photo by Andrew KeshanDeborah Humble is becoming quite famous for a role that is just four and a half minutes long. “Erda in Das Rheingold comes out of the ground, she sings, and she disappears back...
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Emma Matthews, Natalie Aroyan and Dominica Matthews on La traviata
Emma Matthews stars as Violetta in La traviata. Photo by Branco GaicaIf there’s one thing you can guarantee when you put on a production of La traviata, it’s that someone in the audience will want to...
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Scent of a soprano: Cheryl Barker reveals her perfume choice for Tosca
Cheryl BarkerPhoto by Keith SaundersCheryl Barker has an addiction. It’s a fairly benign one, as addictions go, and suitably diva-ish for a woman who spends most of her time singing powerful top notes...
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On the road with Oz Opera: A town like Alice
By Jennifer WilliamsDusk is falling over Alice Springs, and under the rosy glow of the fading light, the Araluen Arts Centre seems deserted. Behind the doors, however, is a travelling company of...
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Kanen Breen on Britten, British humour and the crazy comedy of Albert Herring
Kanen BreenKanen Breen has already won a Helpmann award for his gift with comedy. This winter, he is taking his talents to the title role in Albert Herring: singing the role of a discontented grocer...
View Article8 foolproof motel meals from a travelling company of opera singers
“Steak!” comes the cry from the back of the bus, as we pull into Alice Springs. “Who’s up for a steak?”It’s a treat for a bus full of singers, musicians and mechs, who have been on the road for six...
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REVIEW: Don Giovanni takes Alice Springs
Jessica Dean (Zerlina), Christopher Hillier (Don Giovanni) and Janet Todd (Donna Elvira) in Oz Opera's production of Don Giovanni. Photo by: Albert ComperA guest post by Penelope BergenWhere else in...
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