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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.
How a hate-fuelled killing sparked a revolution in Australia
A new operatic work marks the death of George Duncan and the legacy of the terrible event.
- by Nick Galvin