Tosca | His Majesty’s Theatre | til July 23 | ★ ★ ★ ½ Warning: This review contains mentions of suicide and sexual assault. First performed in 1900, Tosca, a three act opera was the fifth opera written by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. During an era when the western world was undergoing great social, technological, and […]
Angels & Devils | Claremont Showgrounds | til Aug 28 | ★ ★ ★ ★ Freeze Frame Opera (FFO) is a Perth based opera company established in 2016, which reframes operatic classics to make them relevant and entertaining for the modern audience. The performances are specifically designed to introduce opera to new audiences whilst employing both well […]
The West Australian Opera have been keeping opera lovers entertained each week with their Ghost Light Opera series, but this week they’ve taken things up a notch with a whole work being presented. The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti is a short one act work, performed by Chelsea Burns, Lachlann Lawton and Bernadette Lewis. Menotti […]
West Australian Opera isn’t letting anything stop them from bringing music to opera lovers. While the company has had to cancel it’s planned program of works, they’ve just launched a new initiative that will stream online. Carolyn Chard, Executive Director of West Australian Opera explained the new program. “Ghost Light Opera will enable the experience […]
Hansel and Gretel | Supreme Court Gardens | 22nd Feb | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ WA Opera presented their annual Opera in the Park event on Sunday night and it was a fun and frolicking affair with Hansel and Gretel. Performed in English, the opera is a light hearted and comical telling of the Grimm brothers classic fairytale, […]
Opera in the Park returns to the City of Perth in 2019 with West Australian Opera’s production of the Verdi classic La traviata. La traviata tells the story of Violetta, a courtesan with a tragic secret. When she encounters the charming Alfredo, who is besotted with her, Violetta sees the chance for a new life with […]
Don Giovanni | His Majesty’s Theatre | til Oct 27 | ★ ★ ★ ★ West Australian Opera’s 2018 production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni brings life to the legend of the fictional libertine Don Juan, ultimate seducer. This tragi-comedy follows the life of a dark, seductive anti-hero working his way through the women of Europe in the […]
The Cunning Little Vixen | His Majesty’s Theatre | Until 28th April| ★ ★ ★ ½ The WA Opera have boldly staged a work which outside the usual predictable repertoire. Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen is set in a forest and is filled with woodland creatures and forest inhabitants. While most operas are performed in German, French […]
Masterclass | Subiaco Arts Centre | Until Dec 2 | ★ ★ ★ ★ Amanda Muggleton is one of Australia’s great actors, who has time and again, shown us she can deliver the stories of the most intriguing women. Whether it has been in her long running and much loved production of Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine, in her […]
Local opera company OperaBox are delivering a short season of the French opera Manon. First performed in 1884, the work is the best known piece by romantic composer Jules Massenet. It tells the story of a young woman Manon Lescaut who is caught between two potential suitors, a conundrum that forces her to choose between […]
