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…

9 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…

10 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.…

10 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…

10 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…

10 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…

11 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…

11 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…

11 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…

11 years ago