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Australia’s premier opera company is being called out for its traditional use of “yellowface” in its current performances of “Turandot.” Cat-Thao Nguyen, a writer of Vietnamese origin ...
In its bid to encourage more people to experience grand opera, Opera Australia is offering $20 tickets to 2,000 first time opera-goers to see its upcoming production of Puccini’s Tosca, which ...
Opera Australia's website still lists Ms Edwards, Mr Thomson and Ms Lynch as key members of the production's team. "Our agents were told, 'we do not need them'," Mr Thomson said.
The national opera company established 60 years ago was a Mozartean touring party, if you can imagine a road trip with characters such as Don Giovanni, Figaro, Don Alfonso and Papageno. The ...
As fate would have it, in freakish trouble today is Opera Australia. Its chief executive officer, Fiona Allan, resigned this week. Its last annual report posted a $4.9 million operating loss.
Opera Australia’s other headline success for 2012, South Pacific, isn’t an opera, and tickets for their performance of Wagner’s Ring Cycle in Melbourne are significantly more expensive than ...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian opera company is being criticized for banning as part of a sponsorship deal performances of “Carmen” for two years because the 140-year-old French ...
The website is password-protected, and available to students, opera professionals and others with an interest in the ­performance history of operas by Australian composers and librettists.