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Opera
Torres Strait Islanders broke records building train lines. Now their untold story is a musical
Brisbane Festival show Straight from the Strait ensures railway builders of the WA mining boom are no longer unsung heroes.
- by Nick Dent
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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
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Think of the drinkers: the advice that helped turn Hamlet into an opera
Composer Brett Dean needed some sage advice to adapt Shakespeare’s longest play.
- by Joyce Morgan
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Sublime, erotic, dangerous: Dido and Aeneas is 80 minutes of baroque astonishment
Physical feats match vocal brilliance in this powerful staging of Purcell’s tragedy by Opera Queensland with the help of the acrobats of Circa.
- by Nick Dent
Backstage with Opera Australia’s Il Trittico
Backstage with Opera Australia’s brand new production of Puccini’s Il Trittico, ahead of its world premiere at the Sydney Opera House.