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Opera
From opera to undies: Out-of-work prop guy solves a hidden problem
Working up to 14-hour days in his job as deputy head of props for Opera Australia, Adamson has long been bothered by a hidden problem.
- by Nick Galvin
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From the Archives, 1991: Puccini score ends 70 year journey in Melbourne
The score, for the piano section of ‘Manon Lescaut’, was sent to the Victorian State Opera by a man whose family had carried it with them on their travels around the world for 70 years, including fleeing the Nazis from Vienna in 1938.
- by Lawrence Money
Opera Australia gets $4 million boost after lockdown SOS
The federal government’s cash injection is a real morale booster, Opera Australia has said.
- by Linda Morris
‘I feel like we are in a war’: Opera Australia blockbuster cancelled
Opera Australia has been dealt a devastating double blow after it was forced to cancel upcoming seasons of Phantom of the Opera in Sydney and Melbourne.
- by Nick Galvin
Opera Australia’s horror run continues as curtain falls on winter season
The company has been forced to scrap its winter season’s 37 remaining performances.
- by Nick Galvin
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Coronavirus pandemic
Opera Australia performers ordered to self-isolate after construction worker tests positive to COVID-19
Members of the orchestra, singers, technicians and creative staff were in rehearsal at the time the subcontractor was considered potentially infectious.
- by Linda Morris
Singing the aeons-long frustrations of the battle for feminism
In Victorian Opera’s Lorelei, three sirens take to the stage and what starts out as a conventional trio soon takes a dark, hilarious turn.
- by Elizabeth Flux
Huge 3D screens replace opera sets at Verona amphitheatre
Dynamic, 3D images broadcast on huge LED screens recreate a Sicilian village or a Fellini-esque film backlot.
- by Colleen Barry
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Courts
Opera Australia and tenor sued over child sex offences
Opera tenor David Lewis, then 34, befriended the teenager who confided in him about her traumatic childhood. He then proceeded to groom the girl and to sexually abuse her.
- by Kate McClymont
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Review
Aida review: it’s opera, but not as you know it
Opera Australia’s Aida has breathtaking cinematic effects provided by eight massive digital panels.
- by Peter McCallum
Deborah Cheetham’s new opera packs a punch
What if you’d always seen the world as a beautiful, colour-filled place, then discovered that all anyone else can see is darkness?
- by Elizabeth Flux