Blog Club Opéra

MY FAIR LADY - Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Lowe

For Henry Higgins, professor of linguistics and confirmed misogynist, transforming a streeturchin into a lady is a trivial task, done to honour a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering. Until, of course, he meets the proud little cockney, Eliza Doolittle, and finds that his raw material might not be so easy to mould. Lerner and Loewe’s exuberant adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion was always destined to be a smash hit.

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Carmen - G. Bizet
From: 24 January 2008 - To: 28 March 2008
“Carmen has an iconic sensuality but, most of all, she is a free spirit.” Francesca Zambello

Who is that woman? The way she moves, those eyes, that voice… Is Carmen the ultimate femme fatale? Opera Australia is thrilled to present a new production of Bizet’s most famous opera, directed by Francesca Zambello, and conducted by Opera Australia’s Music Director Richard Hickox. Zambello’s production, created for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, is gritty and exotic, while Bizet’s seductive score somehow taps straight into the heart of gypsy song.

Carmen’s steamy ‘Habanera’ is charged with raw passion and the fiery choruses will fill every inch of the theatre. Don José is not the first man to fall for Carmen’s seductive wiles, and nor will he be the last. But the mysterious gypsy leads this innocent soldier from his duty into a world of bullfighting, smuggling and wild dancing, where the turn of a card will decide his fate, and hers. Kirstin Chávez has created Bizet’s bewitching heroine on stages across America. Now she comes to Sydney to star in this compelling new production, while the spirited Pamela Helen Stephen who has turned heads on stages across Europe and the US, will make her Melbourne debut in the title role.

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Nothing is sacred when arch satirist, W.S. Gilbert and musical genius, Arthur Sullivan, get to work. So prepare yourself for a deliciously wicked treat, because The Gondoliers is back.Giuseppe and Marco spend their days on the magical waterways of Venice and their nights with their lovely young wives. Life is good.

So when a royal delegation from an unknown corner of Spain arrives with important news, the gondoliers’ response is somewhat mixed. Reg Livermore, Judi Connelli and John Bolton Wood brought the house down in Melbourne last year and now this top comic team is bound for Sydney. With them come Antoinette Halloran and Taryn Fiebig, Kanen Breen and Robert Bertram, and Opera Australia’s ebullient chorus, who will break into song at every opportunity!

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