Victorian Opera

Victorian Opera: ‘Tis Pity

The 2015 Victorian Opera production of Die Sieben Todsunden with Meow Meow took me as close to seeing how Brecht and Weil…

7 years ago

NZ Opera opens ‘Sweeney Todd’

It's busy times like these that I actually wish I did drink coffee. Alas, my metaphorical ones continue… I am…

8 years ago

Cameron Menzies on VicOpera’s Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor, Victorian Opera’s third main production of 2016, has been playing for the last week at Her Majesty’s Theatre.…

8 years ago

Musical theatre and opera merge: Banquet of Secrets an evolutionary move for Victorian Opera

When it comes to the mechanics of the intersection and amalgamation of operatic and musical theatre performance in Australia, it…

8 years ago

Victorian Opera: Voyage to the Moon

Tuesday’s audience at Melbourne's Recital Centre were noisy, but with mumblings of "wonderful" and interjections of "brava", there's nothing to complain…

8 years ago

Victorian Opera: Seven Deadly Sins

Victorian Opera commissioned four young Australian composers to write Seven Deadly Sins, with a sin for each of seven Australian…

8 years ago

Victorian Opera: Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd, Sondheim’s infamous musical thriller, is brought to visceral reality at Arts Centre Melbourne, completing a highly successful trilogy…

9 years ago

Sweeney Todd: interview with Blake Bowden

The final opera in Victorian Opera’s Stephen Sondheim trilogy opens next week with the much-anticipated Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber…

9 years ago

Victorian Opera: The Flying Dutchman

Opera at the magnificent sea-side Palais Theatre with the audience wearing 3D glasses! Victorian Opera are sure giving us a…

9 years ago