2010 Season Prices
The
Girl of the Golden West
Puccini
The Girl of the Golden West is a mixture of the
Old World and New. The setting is the stuff of Hollywood westerns,
yet it has the ingredients of Italian opera and the music has
a startling originality. Lisa Gasteen, Dennis O'Neill and John
Wegner star in Puccini's grand drama.
Evenings at 7.30pm: July 14, 17, 21, 27, 31, August
3, 6
Matinee at 1pm: July 24
Performed in Italian with surtitles
Running time: approximately three hours including two twenty-minute
intervals.
The
Marriage of Figaro
Mozart
Mozart's masterpiece takes an intimate look at
a microcosm of society: Figaro is a security guard and his fiancée
Susanna is a maid in the Almaviva family's mansion. It is up to
Figaro to pick his way through a mad day and, hopefully, end up
married. Starring Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Peter Coleman-Wright, Taryn
Fiebig and Rachelle Durkin.
Evenings at 7.30pm: July 23, 26, 29, August 4,
10, 14, 16, 18, September 14, 17, 22, 25, 30, October 2,
7, 9, 14, 16, 20
Matinees at 1pm: July 31, August 7, October 23
Performed in Italian with surtitles
Running time: approximately three hours and twenty minutes including
one twenty-minute interval
La
Sonnambula
(The Sleepwalker)
Bellini
Opera Australia presents its first production
of Bellini's La sonnambula. Maestro Richard Bonynge conducts soprano
Emma Matthews as the sleeping songbird Amina. This elegant new
production is inspired by the writings of Freud and Jung, the
vibrant colours of German Expressionist art and Bellini's exhilarating
tumble of sweet melodies
Evenings at 7.30pm: August 5, 7, 9, 11, 17, 19,
21, 24
Matinee at 1pm: August 14
Performed in Italian with surtitles
Running time: approximately two hours and forty minutes including
one twenty-minute interval
The
Pirates of Penzance
Gilbert & Sullivan
Starring Anthony Warlow as the PIRATE KING.
Anthony Warlow dons his cutlass as Gilbert &
Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance sails back into town. This
is your chance to see a foot-stomping, wise-cracking, feel-good
show the whole of Australia loved. Bring the family to enjoy favourites
like: Poor wand'ring one and Hurrah for the Pirate King.
Evenings at 7.30pm: August 25, 26, 27, 28, 31,
September 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 16, 24, October 28,
November 2, 3, 5, 6
Matinees at 1pm: August 28, September 4, 25, October 27, November
3, 6
Performed in English with surtitles
Running time: two hours and ten minutes including one twenty-minute
interval
Rigoletto
Verdi
Opera Australia welcomes one of Britain's most
distinguished baritones, Alan Opie to make his Australian role
debut as Rigoletto. Verdi paints the characters transformations
with a cascade of brilliant arias and ensembles, from the heartbreaking
Pari siamo! to the wickedly jaunty La donna è mobile.
Evenings at 7.30pm: September 18, 23, 28, October
6, 12, 18, 21, 23, 27, 29, November 1, 4
Matinees at 1pm: October 2, 9, 16
Performed in Italian with surtitles
Running time: two hours and forty five minutes including two twenty-minute
intervals
Der
Rosenkavalier
R. Strauss
Strauss's rapturous tale of life, love and the
passage of time is back with Cheryl Barker singing her first Marschallin
in this classic production of Der Rosenkavalier. The words are
bittersweet; the music finds timeless and complex beauty in a
Viennese waltz and heartache in a simple song.
PLEASE NOTE: EARLY START TIME OF 7PM.
Evenings at 7.00pm: October 1, 5, 8, 13, 19, 22, 26, 30
Performed in German with surtitles
Running time: four hours and fifteen minutes including two twenty
five-minute intervals
Based on a production originally conceived by Göran Järvefelt
and Rennie Wright
2010 Season Prices
