The Merry Widow, Opera Queensland’s latest offering, which opens in the Lyric Theatre at Brisbane’s QPAC later this month, is lavish, to say the least. A co-production involving several state opera ...

‘Modernizing’ opera with spare sets and costuming is an attractive proposition from several angles—smaller budgets and reduced complexity, among them. It can work because set dressing should, rightly, ...

Composed by Giacomo Puccini who is heralded as one of the greatest composers of all time, Opera Queensland's Tosca provides a powerful social-commentary on the manipulative nature of power and how ...

Wrong! The Sopranos is a unique take on the form blending arias from opera history demonstrating the treatment of women woven together with a poetic narrative by Sarah Holland-Batt, the acclaimed ...

You have to be robust to sing in Wagner’s epic ‘Ring Cycle’ and being a former brickie from Brisbane Rosario La Spina has the right stuff. La Spina, 49, lives at Redcliffe with his wife, mezzosoprano ...

While some view opera as an art form difficult to comprehend, she hopes her new production of Cinderella will smash that myth. She has taken the popular Rossini opera, that leans heavily on the ...