Murray Dahm

Featured Articles Murray Dahm - 01/08/2025

An opera review by Murray Dahm This is a delightful production, full of wit, insight and wonderful singing, and with...

Featured Articles Murray Dahm - 24/03/2025

Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour reviewed by Murray Dahm This is a great show, but it's not opera. Frank Loesser’s...

Featured Articles Murray Dahm - 05/07/2024

Puccini’s Il Trittico is a peculiar piece. Its name is the Italian for a triptych, three panels of the...

Featured Articles Murray Dahm - 29/06/2023

Murray Dahm has spoken to Stuart Stratford, making his Opera Australia debut as the conductor of Aida. Murray reports: He has...

Featured Articles Murray Dahm - 20/06/2023

Verdi’s Aïda (1871) is a remarkable opera for all sorts of reasons. It was initially commissioned for the opening of...

Featured Articles Murray Dahm - 14/06/2023

Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto (1851) was the composer’s sixteenth opera. Often, it is described as a middle-Verdi masterpiece and, whilst it...

Featured Articles Murray Dahm - 27/03/2023

This Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour (HOSH) production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly was first seen in 2014 and here...

Featured Articles Murray Dahm - 08/01/2023

Yuri Kissin began his singing career in a most unusual way – he was a stand-up comedian and doing...

Featured Articles Murray Dahm - 29/11/2022

I spoke with Diego Torre ahead of Carmen on Sydney’s Cockatoo Island, in which he takes on the role...

Featured Articles Murray Dahm - 23/11/2022

I last spoke with Daniel Sumegi before the Melbourne performances of Wagner’s Lohengrin earlier this year. Now he returns...

Featured Articles Murray Dahm - 18/07/2022

This new production of Verdi’s 1853 opera Il Trovatore directed by Davide Livermore had all the bells and whistles...

Featured Articles Murray Dahm - 17/07/2022

Not long into my interview with bass David Parkin, we discovered a mutual admiration of the great Italian bass...