2010 Season Prices
Tosca
NEW PRODUCTION
Puccini
I lived for art, I lived for love, I never harmed a living
soul…
Puccini's great aria, 'Vissi d'arte', is a moment
when time stands still. Who could resist such a heartbreaking
appeal? And who could resist the glorious voice of Nicole Youl
in Opera Australia's first new production of Puccini's Tosca for
almost thirty years?
Evenings at 7.30pm: February 2, 5, 11, 16, 19,
24, March 6, 9, 13, 15, 18, 22,
Matinees at 1pm: February 27, March 27
TOSCA an original production by Opera North, UK
Performed in Italian with surtitles
Running time: approximately two hours and twenty minutes including
one twenty-minute interval
Manon
Massenet
Never was innocence lost and love betrayed with
such elegance. Stuart Maunder's award-winning production of Massenet's
Manon returns to the Sydney Opera House, with a singer whose star
just keeps rising, the lovely Amelia Farrugia, in the title role.
Internationally renowned Australian tenor Julian Gavin plays Des
Grieux, the love of her life.
Evenings at 7.30pm: February 3, 10, 13
Matinee at 1pm: February 6
Performed in French with surtitles
Running time: three hours and fifteen minutes including two twenty-minute
intervals
La
traviata
Verdi
If you have never been to the opera before, you
cannot go past this celebrated production of La traviata. The
achingly beautiful sets and lavish period costumes fill the stage
with colour, while Verdi's music fills the entire theatre with
his thrilling arias, emotional duets and powerful choruses.
Violetta is the toast of Paris. Her parties are
legendary, her beauty is much admired and her admirers queue up
to pay their compliments. As for love, it has no real place in
her life until the fateful day she meets Alfredo. Suddenly the
good time girl finds herself wanting more than a light-hearted
fling, but can she leave her past behind?
Evenings at 7.30pm: February 1, 4, 6, 17, 20,
22, 25, 27, March 5, 10, 20, 23, 26, 29
Matinee at 1pm: February 13, March 13
Performed in Italian with surtitles
Running time: two hours and fifty minutes including two twenty-minute
intervals
A
Midsummer Night's Dream
Benjamin Britten
Inspired by Shakespeare's poetry and Benjamin
Britten's music, visionary director Baz Luhrmann dreamt up a colour
drenched realm of midsummer magic where Indian gods, British colonials
and rustic clowns collided, colluded and sometimes fell in love.
Come prepared to laugh and cry.
Evenings at 7.30pm: February 18, 23, 26, March
3, 11, 16, 19, 24
Matinees at 1pm: February 20, March 6
Performed in English with surtitles
Running time: three hours and fifteen minutes including two twenty-minute
intervals
WORLD
PREMIERE
BLISS
An opera by Brett Dean & Amanda Holden
Based on the novel by Peter Carey
Directed by Neil Armfield and starring Peter Coleman-Wright,
Bliss is a groundbreaking new opera. Based on Peter Carey's darkly
comic fable, Bliss charts the adventures of Harry Joy, an advertising
executive who, after a close encounter with death, finds himself
sucked into a Kafkaesque series of events.
Evenings at 7.30pm: March 12, 17, 25, 27, 30
Matinee at 1pm: March 20
Performed in English with surtitles
Running time: approximately two hours and forty minutes including
one twenty-minute interval
Please note there are scenes depicting simulated sexual acts and
this production is not suitable for children.
A
Little Night Music
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler
Don't miss Sigrid Thornton performing the hit
song 'Send in the Clowns' in this Tony Award-winning musical.
With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, A Little Night Music
is an exquisite meditation on love, described by The New York
Times as 'sophisticated and enchanting'.
Evenings at 7.30pm: June 28, 29, July 2, 3, 7,
8, 9, 10, 13
Matinees at 1pm: July 3, 10
Performed in English
Running time: approximately two hours and forty minutes including
one twenty-minute interval
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
