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Opera Australia unveils 2025 program amid the chaos
The abrupt departure of artistic director Jo Davies has cast a shadow over a promising 2025 season for the company.
- by Nick Galvin and Elizabeth Flux
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Monsters, torture and a week of sex – this 3000-year-old tale has got the lot
The ancient Epic of Gilgamesh was scratched into clay tablets long before paper was invented. Now it’s getting the operatic treatment.
- by Joyce Morgan
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Opera Australia in turmoil after shock departure of artistic director
Jo Davies had barely 18 months in the key role at the nation’s biggest performing arts company.
- by Nick Galvin
This terrifying tale is so intense you can feel it in your bones
Hayes Theatre is presenting a classic spine-chiller as its first opera.
- by Nick Galvin
Their speed at building railways made them legends. What was their secret?
Brisbane Festival show Straight from the Strait ensures Torres Strait Islander workers of the WA mining boom are no longer unsung heroes.
- by Nick Dent
Five days to get gala ready? ‘Yes it was stressful, but I’m a tenor’
Singer Young Woo Kim was two days into a holiday when a phone call saw him racing to Melbourne for a flurry of rehearsals and excitement.
- by Elizabeth Flux
The ‘post-Millennial Mozart’ on contemporary opera’s most talked-about production
Missy Mazzoli was wary about turning a harrowing film by Lars von Trier into an opera – but it presented an opportunity that could not be missed.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen