opera Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/opera/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:02:13 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 La Rondine https://www.jwire.com.au/la-rondine/ https://www.jwire.com.au/la-rondine/#respond Fri, 09 Aug 2024 05:05:30 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=161057 A Melbourne opera review by Alex First Can one truly escape one’s past? Can true love win out? These are questions posed in Giacomo Puccini’s La Rondine (The Swallow). The three-act lyric opera set in Paris and on the French Riviera concerns the fate of a mistress. She – Magda – and her provider, the […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/la-rondine/feed/ 0 161057 A conversation with conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya https://www.jwire.com.au/a-conversation-with-conductor-lidiya-yankovskaya/ https://www.jwire.com.au/a-conversation-with-conductor-lidiya-yankovskaya/#respond Wed, 10 Jul 2024 04:30:59 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=160031 Lidiya Yankovskaya left her home city of St Petersburg in 1995 to seek a new home with her family in Albany, New York, escaping the rampant antisemitism sweeping the Russian city. In 2024, she visits Sydney for the first time and marvels at the amazing views from the conductor’s dressing room at the Opera House’s […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/a-conversation-with-conductor-lidiya-yankovskaya/feed/ 0 160031 Mozart opera has its Sydney premiere https://www.jwire.com.au/mozart-opera-has-its-sydney-premiere/ https://www.jwire.com.au/mozart-opera-has-its-sydney-premiere/#respond Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:51:41 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=155530 Opera Australia and Victorian Opera’s exciting new co-production by Lindy Hume of Mozart’s Idomeneo will have its Sydney Premiere at the Joan Sutherland Theatre, opening on 20 February and running to 15 March. This production is the first partnership between these two leading Australian performing arts organisations, extending both companies’ capabilities to present world-class opera […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/mozart-opera-has-its-sydney-premiere/feed/ 0 155530 Verdi’s masterpiece La Traviata in best production ever https://www.jwire.com.au/verdis-masterpiece-la-traviata-in-best-production-ever/ https://www.jwire.com.au/verdis-masterpiece-la-traviata-in-best-production-ever/#respond Thu, 04 Jan 2024 04:43:20 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=154626 An Opera review by Victor Grynberg  Critics are meant to be unbiased, but this critic will happily admit that Giuseppe Verdi is his favourite (amongst quite a few) opera composer, and of all the Verdi masterpieces, La Traviata is indeed his first choice. For a generation, I always thought the classic production originally directed and […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/verdis-masterpiece-la-traviata-in-best-production-ever/feed/ 0 154626 The Tales of Hoffmann https://www.jwire.com.au/the-tales-of-hoffmann/ https://www.jwire.com.au/the-tales-of-hoffmann/#respond Thu, 13 Jul 2023 08:08:46 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=149113 An opera review by Murray Dahm Jacques Offenbach’s 1881 opéra fantastique The Tales of Hoffmann (Les contes d’Hoffmann in French) is a fascinating work for a whole number of reasons. Offenbach actually died (in October 1889) four months before the work premiered and so never got to see it succeed. It was also, originally an Opéra-Comique – with […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/the-tales-of-hoffmann/feed/ 0 149113 Idomeneo: an opera review by Alex First https://www.jwire.com.au/idomeneo-an-opera-reviewby-alex-first/ https://www.jwire.com.au/idomeneo-an-opera-reviewby-alex-first/#respond Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:12:42 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=149005 Superb staging is a hallmark of Mozart’s dramatic opera Idomeneo, set on the island of Crete shortly after the Trojan War. Ilia, daughter of the defeated Trojan King Priam, expresses conflicting emotions. She has love for her rescuer, Idamante, son of Cretan King Idomeneo, and hatred for her father’s Greek enemies, who killed both her […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/idomeneo-an-opera-reviewby-alex-first/feed/ 0 149005 Opera Australia showcases premiere of Adriana Lecouvreur https://www.jwire.com.au/opera-australia-showcases-premiere-of-adriana-lecouvreur/ https://www.jwire.com.au/opera-australia-showcases-premiere-of-adriana-lecouvreur/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2023 03:09:42 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=144917 The Australian premiere of acclaimed Italian director Rosetta Cucchi’s production of Adriana Lecouvreur will feature an outstanding quartet of some of the world’s most extraordinary opera singers when it opens at the Sydney Opera House on Monday. The role of Adriana Lecouvreur demands the finest talent in both singing and acting, and Albanian soprano Ermonela […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/opera-australia-showcases-premiere-of-adriana-lecouvreur/feed/ 0 144917 Phantom of the Opera: Murray Dahm talks with Naomi Johns https://www.jwire.com.au/phantom-of-the-opera-murray-dahms-talks-with-naomi-johns/ https://www.jwire.com.au/phantom-of-the-opera-murray-dahms-talks-with-naomi-johns/#respond Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:42:24 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=135276 Naomi Johns was very excited to be involved in her first-ever Opera Australia publicity when I spoke with her ahead of the opening night of Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour’s Phantom of the Opera production which opens tonight. This production represents a whole series of firsts. It is the first outdoor production of the Sir […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/phantom-of-the-opera-murray-dahms-talks-with-naomi-johns/feed/ 0 135276 La Juive: an opera about the forbidden love between a Jewish woman and Christian man https://www.jwire.com.au/la-jeuve-an-opera-about-the-forbidden-love-between-a-jewish-woman-and-christian-man/ https://www.jwire.com.au/la-jeuve-an-opera-about-the-forbidden-love-between-a-jewish-woman-and-christian-man/#respond Fri, 18 Feb 2022 01:04:55 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=134132 After pandemic restrictions shut down its scheduled opening in 2020, acclaimed French director Olivier Py’s new production of La Juive will finally have its Australian premiere at the Sydney Opera House, this coming March. Big and tragically romantic, Fromental Halévy’s heart-wrenching opera about forbidden love between a Christian and a Jew offers audiences the rare […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/la-jeuve-an-opera-about-the-forbidden-love-between-a-jewish-woman-and-christian-man/feed/ 0 134132 $20 tickets for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House for years 11 & 12 students https://www.jwire.com.au/20-tickets-for-opera-australia-at-the-sydney-opera-house-for-years-11-12-students/ https://www.jwire.com.au/20-tickets-for-opera-australia-at-the-sydney-opera-house-for-years-11-12-students/#respond Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:34:15 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=133584 Opera Australia has partnered with The Bourne Foundation to offer year 11 and 12 students $20 tickets to see Puccini’s Turandot and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro during its summer season at the Sydney Opera House. School students with an interest in music, drama, fashion, art and design are invited to experience the joy of live opera, with subsidised […]

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