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SYDNEY SEASON 20182018

PRINCIPAL PARTNER Welcome to Australia 2018

This year is a celebration of wonderful A new production of Aida by Davide , extraordinary artists, great Livermore features three casts of productions and a journey into the some of the finest singers in the romantic world of some of the greatest world. Amber Wagner, Yonghoon Lee, composers and writers in the history Riccardo Massi, Diego Torre and the of Western civilisation. rising Australian soprano, Natalie Aroyan, all perform during the season. We are privileged to host some of the most outstanding artists of our Outstanding conductors Renato time, singing roles they have made Palumbo, Andrea Battistoni, New Year’s Eve their own throughout the world. Guillaume Tourniaire, Andrea Molino, Leo Nucci and Ferruccio Furlanetto Carlo Montanaro and Andrea Licata at the Sydney Opera House bring their celebrated interpretations are a cause for celebration and are of and Don Quichotte to featured throughout the year. Australia for the first time. Finally we present the first of a We are also thrilled to present some series of contemporary Australian superb Australian artists who are operas: Metamorphosis by Australian Ringside seats to the greatest Package options The Opera Gala enjoying stellar international careers. composer Brian Howard. This will be show on earth are hard to come by, Add pre-performance dinner and/or 31 December 2017 an important addition to our present but we’ve saved some great ones, the Midnight Party when you book at 7:45pm Nicole Car will sing Violetta in Concert Hall, and future seasons. and you’re invited. your tickets for La Traviata for the very first time Sydney Opera House or the Opera Gala. and Jessica Pratt performs one of her I hope you enjoy our year of opera in Choose between two performances: Starring signature roles, , 2018 and I look forward to welcoming a full performance of The Merry Pre-Performance Dinner $399 Emma Matthews alongside one of the world’s leading you to the theatre. Widow or the entertaining Opera Dine on a three-course menu, designed by Sian Pendry , Michael Fabiano. Gala, featuring opera’s greatest Matt Moran of ARIA Restaurant, matched Diego Torre José Carbó hits: from ‘Nessun dorma’ to with premium wines and beverages in the Love talking about opera? The superb Danielle de Niese makes Conductor the can-can. Northern Foyer from 5:30pm. Brian Castles-Onion Sign up for our e-newsletter a welcome debut for Hosted By at opera.org.au and join the at the Sydney Opera House singing Then, with a heart full of song, Midnight Party $329 Jonathan Biggins conversation on Facebook, the title role in a new production watch the fireworks the whole Canapés, drinks and live entertainment Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. of The Merry Widow, directed by world watches. Interval is timed from 10:30pm, with views of the midnight Opera Australia Orchestra Graeme Murphy. for the 9pm fireworks and the fireworks from the Northern Foyers. Lyndon Terracini AM The Merry Widow If you would like to be Sydney Opera House stays open 31 December 2017 The fabulous Barrie Kosky returns Artistic Director Platinum Package $1399 sent a copy of the text in well past the midnight fireworks. at 8pm to stage his spectacular production Pre-performance dinner, Premium seats at Joan Sutherland Theatre, this brochure printed in of The Nose, a co-production between There’s nowhere in the world like the performance of your choice, a program, Sydney Opera House a larger font, please Opera Australia, Sydney on New Year’s Eve and drink at interval, and the Midnight Party. See page 3 for details phone 02 9318 8200. Covent Garden and the Komische there’s nowhere closer to the For the best viewing of the midnight fireworks, Oper Berlin. action than Sydney Opera House. book tickets to the exclusive Midnight Party, Make this your most glamorous overlooking Sydney Harbour with fantastic views

Paolo Bordogna and Stacey Alleaume’s Photo: Ken Leanfore and memorable New Year ever. of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. extraordinary vocal and comic If you’re unable to attend the Midnight Party, there gifts will bring the house down in are a limited number of viewing areas you’ll be able to The Turk in Italy. access following the performance. Please note that these spaces are limited and cannot be guaranteed. 1 | 2 Conductor Hanna Glavari Konrad Pritschich NEW PRODUCTION Let’s waltz, let’s Vanessa Scammell Danielle de Niese Tom Hamilton Director & (evenings) Praskovia sway the night away. Choreographer Julie Lea Goodwin Dominica Matthews It's time for a little Graeme Murphy (matinées) Creative Associate Danilo Danilovich Opera Australia Chorus romance. There’s Janet Vernon Alexander Lewis Opera Australia Orchestra Set Designer Baron Mirko Zeta a fortune at stake — Michael David Whitney Running time: Scott-Mitchell Valencienne approximately 2 hours which match will she Costume Designer Stacey Alleaume and 50 minutes, Jennifer Irwin Camille de Rosillon including two intervals. make? She’ll lead you Lighting Designer John Longmuir Damien Cooper Njegus This production of a merry old dance. Sound Designer Benjamin Rasheed The Merry Widow Tony David Cray Alexis Kromov was commissioned by Assistant Director Richard Anderson the Opera Conference, & Choreographer Dominik Bogdanovich Australia’s national Shane Placentino Christopher Hillier partnership of Assistant Director Sylviane professional opera Matthew Barclay Jane Ede companies. English Translation Raoul de St. Brioche Justin Fleming Graeme Macfarlane Viscount Cascada Luke Gabbedy Olga Kromov Agnes Sarkis

The Merry Widow Lehár

Sydney Opera House Hanna is newly wealthy, newly She’s looking for love, but the widow

widowed and suddenly, she’s is not the only one turning heads. Antoni) Georges Arnstein, (Sven Niese de Danielle Photo: New Year’s Eve at 8pm December 31, 2017 the hottest catch in town. There’s plenty of love to go around in this story of amorous encounters Dapper gents are lining up for Evenings at 7:30pm and elegant romance. Tuesday – Saturday a place on her dance card, but the January 2 – February 3 beguiling widow has eyes for only Lehár’s charming operetta is filled except Australia Day one man: the one that got away. with delicious waltzes and pretty January 26 ballads, including the famous International star Danielle de Niese Monday evenings at 6:30pm ‘Vilja Song’. January 8, 15, 22, 29 returns to her homeland to play the bubbly, beautiful widow, inadvertent Graeme Murphy brings his spirited Saturday matinées at 1pm heiress of a city’s fortune after just choreography and direction to this January 6, 13, 20, 27 eight days of marriage. glamorous new production. February 3

Sung in English. 3 | 4 Conductor Sydney Opera House Paolo Carignani Rinat Shaham (until Feb 27) (until Feb 27) Evenings at 7:30pm Tahu Matheson Sian Pendry February 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, (from Mar 2) (from Mar 2) 22, 24, 27 Director Don José March 2, 15, 17, 23 John Bell Marcelo Puente Saturday matinée at 1pm Revival Director (until Feb 27) March 10 Roger Press Otar Jorjikia Set Designer (from Mar 2) Sung in French with Michael Escamillo English surtitles. Scott-Mitchell Michael Honeyman Costume Designer Micaëla Running time: Teresa Negroponte Stacey Alleaume approximately 3 hours, The ultimate femme fatale is Lighting Designer (until Feb 27) including one interval. Trent Suidgeest Natalie Aroyan here to stamp her feet, toss Choreographer (from Mar 2) Kelley Abbey Zuniga her hair and dance. Will she Fight Choreographer Adrian Tamburini love Don José? Maybe. Will you Nigel Poulton Dancairo Luke Gabbedy fall for her sultry Habanera? Remendado Nicholas Jones Definitely. Moralès Alexander Hargreaves Frasquita Jane Ede Mercédès Agnes Sarkis

Opera Australia Chorus Opera Australia Orchestra CARMEN Bizet

In the colourful streets of a colonial John Bell’s production is a bold city, Carmen is a red hot spark. look at the intense relationships at the heart of Bizet’s famous opera. She sings her siren song, and It hones in on the wild love that suddenly, Don José’s world promises freedom, while binding the is alight with a volatile fire. lovers in an unbreakable web of fate. This vibrant production of Bizet’s Paolo Carignani conducts the vivacious opera features gypsy girls and bull- Rinat Shaham as opera’s favourite fighting boys in eye-popping colours. femme fatale, with Argentine There are smugglers in suits, parades Marcelo Puente as Don José and and punches, lust and loathing aplenty. Michael Honeyman as Escamillo. And underneath those irresistible Later in the season, Sian Pendry, star Spanish tunes, the dark undercurrent Photo: Rinat Shaham (Georges Antoni) of last year’s Handa Opera on Sydney of fate pulses. Carmen knows she is Harbour, reprises this famous role. dancing with death.

5 | 6 Conductor Platon Kuzmitch Kovalev Sydney Opera House An absurd little story Andrea Molino Martin Winkler Director Ivan Iakolevitch / Evenings at 7:30pm about a nose on the move, Barrie Kosky Clerk / Doctor February 21, 23, 26, 28 Revival Director John Tomlinson Met a precocious composer Felix Seiler Praskovia Osipovna / Saturday matinée at 1pm When Shostakovich released his Who better to direct than the Set & Lighting Designer Pretzel Seller March 3 NEW PRODUCTION NEW with something to prove, Klaus Grünberg Antoinette Halloran debut opera into the world at the outrageously inventive Barrie Kosky, Costume Designer District Inspector Sung in English with tender age of 20, his brilliance the Australian director of Berlin’s There resulted an opera Buki Shiff Kanen Breen English surtitles. was plain as the nose on his face. Komische Oper Reviewers called this Choreographer The Nose / Iaryzhkin co-production with the Royal Opera that bursts with ideas, Otto Pichler Alexander Lewis Running time: He used every musical trick in the Revival Choreographer Pelageya Podtotschina / approximately 2 hours House “terrifically realised, brilliantly book (and quite a few that weren’t) Thomas Herron Respectable Lady and 10 minutes without inventive and highly entertaining” The critics were shocked: Assistant Director Sian Pendry interval. to tell this amusing tale: here a (The Spectator). Matthew Barclay Podtotschina’s Daughter raucous percussion ensemble, here a an assault on the ears. Translation Eva Kong Please note that this maniacal gallop, there a lyrical chorus. Andrea Molino conducts a massive David Pountney production contains This eclectic parade of styles put a few cast including Martin Winkler, Opera Australia Chorus strong language. But the audience sniggered, Opera Australia Orchestra noses out of joint, but sniff as they John Tomlinson and Alexander Lewis. guffawed and then gasped, A co-production might, not even the establishment could They perform in English in a new For the full cast list, visit between Royal Opera deny that here was a virtuoso at work. translation by David Pountney. opera.org.au/nose House Covent Garden, At the clowning, the Opera Australia and The frenetic score springs entirely slapstick, the flatulant brass. Komische Oper. from the action on stage, as a lowly PRODUCTION PARTNER official chases his gallivanting nose Exuberant music around town. It’s a zany, hyperactive cabaret with more than 80 named with theatre to match, parts (including the nose itself). A nose on the run is a hard thing to catch.

Shostakovich T H E N O S E Photo: © Royal Opera House (Bill Cooper) (Bill House Opera © Royal Photo:

7 | 8 Conductor Violetta Valéry Sydney Opera House Raise your glass, flutter Andrea Licata Nicole Car Director Stacey Alleaume Evenings at 7:30pm your pretty lashes, it’s Elijah Moshinsky (Mar 3, 22) March 1, 3, 5, 10, 12, 14, Revival Director Alfredo Germont 20, 22, 24, 27 Paris in the salons and Constantine Costi Ji-Min Park Saturday matinée at 1pm you’re the life of this Set Designer Giorgio Germont March 17 Michael Yeargan Vitaliy Bilyy party. He’s staring at Costume Designer Flora Bervoix Sung in Italian with Peter J Hall Dominica Matthews English surtitles. you, he’s singing for Lighting Designer Gastone Nigel Levings John Longmuir Running time: Verdi you... Are you tempted? Baron Douphol approximately 2 hours Adrian Tamburini and 50 minutes, Marquis d’Obigny including two intervals. Tom Hamilton Doctor Grenvil Gennadi Dubinsky Annina Natalie Aroyan Giuseppe Jin Tea Kim Messenger Jonathan McCauley Servant Malcolm Ede Nicole Car makes her debut as Violetta. Opera Australia Chorus Photo: Nicole Car Opera Australia Orchestra (Georges Antoni).

Violetta wears velvet and lace and This production by Elijah Moshinsky drinks the very best champagne is one of our most successful, featuring from crystal glasses. Her parties are lush party scenes in Paris and beautiful legendary, her company desired. autumn afternoons in the countryside. She’s free and free-spirited, living Lavish, crowded sets and exquisite outside society’s bounds, and for costumes combined with Verdi’s this courtesan, it seems like the famous tunes offer the perfect way party will never end. Could a little to experience opera for the first time, love really change everything? or the chance to revisit a favourite La Traviata is so popular because with an exciting new cast. it puts a life we can only dream Adored at home and sought-after of on stage, with its risqué glamour, abroad, Nicole Car makes her joys and sorrows. debut as Violetta. Verdi’s music sings of freedom with Photo: Georges Antoni flying melodies, makes merry with rousing drinking songs and leaves us, at the last, with passionate duets between breaking hearts.

9 | 10 From a time when men were brave and bold comes the dreamer, Don Quichotte. He chases bandits. Tilts at windmills. Serenades the pretty girls. He’s a hero like the knights of old,

NEW PRODUCTION NEW pursuing dreams the world forgot. It takes a special performer to make you fall in love with this eccentric character. Ferruccio Furlanetto’s Don Quichotte is famous. The hero no one He takes the dreams and delusions needed embarks on of the famous knight-errant and paints an earnest and endearing one last noble quest. portrait of a man out of time. Furlanetto’s Don Quichotte is brimful of whimsy and bursting with bravery. His sonorous finds all the colours of Massenet’s lush, romantic score. He performs with brilliant French conductor Guillaume Tourniaire and Elena Maximova as the damsel Dulcinée.

Don Quichotte Massenet Photo: Ferruccio Furlanetto © Ken Howard / San Diego Opera Diego / San Howard © Ken Furlanetto Ferruccio Photo:

Conductor Don Quichotte Sydney Opera House Guillaume Tourniaire Ferruccio Furlanetto Revival Director La belle Dulcinée Evenings at 7:30pm Hugh Halliday Elena Maximova March 16, 19, 21, 26, 28 Set Designer Sancho Panza Saturday matinée at 1pm Ralph Funicello Warwick Fyfe March 24 Costume Designer Rodriguez Missy West Graeme Macfarlane Sung in French with Juan English surtitles. John Longmuir Pedro Running time: Jane Ede approximately 2 hours Garcias and 30 minutes, including Sian Pendry one interval.

Opera Australia Chorus A San Diego Opera Opera Australia Orchestra production.

11 | 12 Conductor Mimì Sung in Italian with Brian Castles-Onion Iulia Maria Dan English and Simplified Love is a fire that A candle sputters out in the Arrive as the sun is setting over Director Maija Kovalevska Chinese subtitles. sparks bright at Parisian night. Two hands meet the city skyline and take in the view Andy Morton Rodolfo in the dark and four friends’ lives with a glass of bubbles in hand. Set & Costume Ho-Yoon Chung Running time: first sight, are changed forever. Puccini’s Meet for dinner at one of the pop-up Designer Paul O’Neill approximately 2 hours Dan Potra Musetta and 30 minutes, including Blazes in the dark beloved opera, La Bohème, opens bars and restaurants at the water’s NEW PRODUCTION NEW Lighting Designer Julie Lea Goodwin one interval. your soul to emotions too big for edge. Then immerse yourself in love, Matthew Marshall Marcello of night, words. His music swells with love, laughter and loss as the bohemian Sound Designer Samuel Dundas The site opens at 5pm, soars in ecstasy, crackles with friends bare their hearts in the Tony David Cray Christopher Tonkin with bar and restaurant Flares in poetry, Video Designer Colline venues on site. jealousy and cries with heartache. romantic Paris winter. Marco Devetak Richard Anderson songs and art, Schaunard Fleet Steps, Experience the romance of the Andy Morton directs two brilliant Christopher Hillier Mrs Macquaries Point, Burns in the embers original bohemian love story at casts on the harbour-top stage, Benoît / Alcindoro Sydney of a broken heart. the magnificent Handa Opera with sets and costumes by Dan Potra, John Bolton Wood on Sydney Harbour. You’ll taste who brought us on Evenings at 7:30pm Opera Australia Chorus March 23 – April 22 the best of Sydney in a single night Sydney Harbour. Opera Australia Orchestra Tuesday – Sunday, out: food, fireworks, singing and except Good Friday spectacle under the stars. March 30

Please note: You cannot exchange Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour tickets after 1 March 2018. Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour La Bohème Puccini Photo: Julie Lea Goodwin (Georges Antoni)

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13 | 14 Conductor Sydney Opera House Carlo Montanaro Director Evenings at 7:30pm John Doyle June 28, 30 Revival Director July 3, 13, 19, 21, 23, 27 Roger Press Saturday matinée at 1pm Set & Costume July 7 Designer Liz Ascroft Sung in Italian with Lighting Designer English surtitles. Jane Cox Running time: Lucia approximately 3 hours, Jessica Pratt including two intervals. Lucia di Edgardo Michael Fabiano A co-production Enrico between Houston Giorgio Caoduro Grand Opera, Opera Raimondo Australia and Teatro Richard Anderson La Fenice. Alisa Lammermoor Jane Ede Donizetti Arturo John Longmuir Normanno Benjamin Rasheed

Opera Australia Chorus Opera Australia Orchestra Do not make her say, without love, ‘till death do us part’ Lest death come swiftly and madness follow.

Lucia is a woman on the edge of The score is full of highlights, but insanity: deceived by her brother, none compare with the dazzling bereft of her lover, she marries coloratura of Lucia’s mad scene. a man she does not love and The blood-covered bride emerges descends into madness. from her chamber a vocal whirling The sopranos that conquer her dervish, while the glass harmonica stratospheric notes are some of plays in haunting accompaniment. the greatest the world has ever seen. Pratt performs her celebrated Lucia Jessica Pratt has joined the ranks of with Michael Fabiano’s intense Nellie Melba and Joan Sutherland: one Edgardo and Giorgio Caoduro’s of just three Australians to sing this menacing Enrico.

role on the hallowed stage. Photo: (Georges Jessica Pratt Antoni) Carlo Montanaro conducts this Now, she returns home to make her brilliant young cast in a compelling Sydney Opera House debut. production by John Doyle with Passions run hot on the cold moors period designs by Liz Ascroft. of Scotland, and Donizetti traces every moment with exquisite music.

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The fires burn merrily in the the in merrily burn fires The beautiful lighting palace, Duke’s the But deeds. dark doing people streets the in long are shadows jokes, your Tell Mantua. of Rigoletto. Lock up your trust nobody. and daughter

Photo: (Georges Antoni)

PRINCIPAL PATRON PRINCIPAL Renowned , baritone, Renowned Leo Nucci, performs Nucci, Leo performances: three just July 6, 11, 14 Photo: Leo Nucci (Roberto Ricci)

Sydney Opera House Opera Sydney Evenings at 7:30pm July 6, 11, 14, 20, 17, 25 August 2, 4, 8, 14, 17, 21, 24 matinées Saturday at 12.30pm July 28 August 11 Sung in Italian with surtitles. English Please note that this briefly production partial nudity. contains time: Running hours 2 approximately with minutes, 20 and interval.one Leo is the Nucci famous most interpreter Rigoletto of in a generation. brings He his legendary performance as the bitter court Australia to jester the first for time, with Gianluca Terranova and Irina Lungu under Verdi theof baton veteran, Renato Palumbo. Dalibor Jenis, Nadine Sierra and Atalla Ayan are a dream alternate cast. Roger Hodgman’s period plush, a darkproduction presents and dangerous world, with forbidding sets and costumes rich in detail.

Gilda Gilda Irina Lungu Aug(until 2) Nadine Sierra (from Aug 4) Monterone Dubinsky Gennadi Sparafucile Berezhansky Taras Maddalena SianPendry Marullo Gabbedy Luke Borsa Rasheed Benjamin Ceprano Hillier Christopher Giovanna Dominica Matthews Ceprano Countess Rinaldi Ileana Chorus Australia Opera Orchestra Australia Opera

From the moment he wrote it, Verdi wrote he From the it, Verdi moment knew had he a hit his on hands. The story had everything: royalty, loyalty, deformity, devotion, lust and revenge. And The was the music music? sensational, so full hummable of tunes that demanded complete Verdi secrecy from his cast. première from even was The tenor forbidden whistling the catchy ‘La donna rehearsals. of outside è mobile’ The morning after Rigoletto’s triumphant première, that melody rang in out the streets: ever a hit for after. The title character called Verdi the “greatest creation” in the history theatreof in had a found a home masterpiece of music. Conductor Palumbo Renato Director Hodgman Roger Director Revival Halliday Hugh Designer Set Richard Roberts Designer Costume Tracy Grant Lord DesignerLighting Matt Scott Rigoletto Leo Nucci (Jul 6,(Jul 11, 14) Dalibor Jenis (from Aug 4) (from July 17) Duke of Mantua Gianluca Terranova Aug(until 2) Atalla Ayan RIGOLETTO Verdi NEW PRODUCTION This is a story of love so strong it defies enemy lines. This is a story of a kingdom in triumph and a nation in chains. This is a story of betrayal.

Verdi

Conductor Amonasro Andrea Battistoni Warwick Fyfe (until Aug 9) (until Aug 9) Pier Giorgio Morandi Michael Honeyman (from Aug 11) (from Aug 11) Director & Ramfis Choreographer Roberto Scandiuzzi Davide Livermore High Priestess Set Designer Jane Ede GIOFORMA & Davide Livermore Opera Australia Chorus Verdi’s monumental, transcendent music Costume Designer Opera Australia Orchestra makes this historic epic a perennial Gianluca Falaschi favourite. Our new production comes Lighting Designer Sydney Opera House from the celebrated Italian director John Rayment Video Designer Evenings at 7:30pm Davide Livermore. D-Walk July 18, 24, 26, 28 Assistant Director August 1, 7, 9, 11, 13, 16, 18, He is renowned for high-tech, projected Matthew Barclay 20, 22, 27, 29, 31 sets so tangible, it’s hard to believe they Saturday matinées at 1pm are just light and shadow. Immersive, Aida July 21 impressive, intimate — this is the future Amber Wagner August 4, 25 (until Aug 9) of spectacle on stage. Natalie Aroyan Sung in Italian with Thrilling young conductor Andrea (from Aug 11) English surtitles. Amneris Battistoni returns to lead this production. Elena Gabouri Running time: Three magnificent casts perform Verdi’s (until Aug 9) approximately 3 hours, difficult leads. You don’t want to miss Clémentine Margaine including one interval. (Aug 11, 16, 20, 22, 25, 27) Photo: Natalie Aroyan (Georges Antoni) (Georges Aroyan Natalie Photo: the stunning soprano of Amber Wagner, Milijana Nikolic paired with Elena Gabouri as Amneris (Aug 13, 18, 29, 31) PRODUCTION PARTNER and Riccardo Massi as Radamès. Radamès SUSAN & I SAAC WAKIL Riccardo Massi F OUNDATION Later in the season, rising star Natalie (Jul 18, 21, 26; Aug 1, 7, Aroyan takes on her dream role, and 13, 18, 22, 27) Clémentine Margaine, Milijana Nikolic, Yonghoon Lee (Aug 11, 16, 20, 25, 29, 31) Diego Torre and Yonghoon Lee join the Diego Torre all-star lineup. (Jul 24, 28; Aug 4, 9)

19 | 20 She’s flirtatious, audacious From Italy’s greatest master of Conductor Fiorilla Sydney Opera House laughs comes a riotous comedy with Andrea Molino Stacey Alleaume Director Narciso Evenings at 7:30pm and unspeakably bored. a knockout score. Simon Phillips Juan José de León August 10, 15, 23, 25, 28, 30 It skips and sparkles from the gruffest Revival Director Geronio September 1 He’s geriatric, sycophantic Andy Morton Warwick Fyfe Saturday matinée of bass notes to the impossibly high Set & Costume Selim at 12:30pm and easily ignored. reaches of Stacey Alleaume’s coloratura. Designer Paolo Bordogna August 18 Gabriela Tylesova Prosdocimo Add a handsome prince, Andrea Molino leads a cracking team of Lighting Designer Samuel Dundas Sung in Italian with comic talents, including Paolo Bordogna Nick Schlieper Zaida English surtitles. in his side-splitting performance as the Anna Dowsley a gypsy minx, and a poet Albazar Running time: in need of a plot. Turk. Simon Phillips’ playful production Graeme Macfarlane approximately 2 hours wrings every last laugh from Rossini’s and 55 minutes, including ridiculous romp. Opera Australia Chorus one interval. Put this classic Rossini Opera Australia Orchestra in vintage bikinis, Gabriela Tylesova’s gelato-coloured costumes and clever, cartoonish sets And a rollicking good are stars in their own right: a candied cherry on top of this rather outrageous time we’ve got! ice-cream sundae. “It’s just about as much fun as you can have in an opera house,” said Phillips, and the critics agreed. “One of Opera Australia’s brightest, best and most daring shows” (The Daily Telegraph). “It can charm the pants off anyone with The Turk a funny bone worth tickling” (Limelight). in Italy Rossini Photo: Georges Antoni

21 | 22 Lyrics by Sydney Opera House NEW PRODUCTION Tim Rice Music by September 18 – Andrew Lloyd Webber November 3

Director Tuesday – Saturday Starring Hal Prince at 7:30pm Designer Wednesday & Saturday Timothy O’Brien at 1pm Choreographer Sunday at 3pm Larry Fuller TINA Lighting Designer Please note that the Richard Winkler performance schedule Sound Designer differs on certain dates. Mick Potter See the calendar on ARENA Projection Designer page 32 for details. as Eva Peron Duncan McLean Orchestrations David Cullen Musical Supervisor Guy Simpson

Starring Tina Arena

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s EVITA Evita is iconic, with more than 20 major awards to its credit, including the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Musical, a Golden Globe and an Oscar for the film version starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas. After sell-out productions including This musical captured the attention South Pacific, The King and I and most of the public when it was first recently the 60th anniversary staged in 1978 and in its 40th year production of My Fair Lady, we once and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 70th again re-create one of the greatest year, we are thrilled to bring this works of musical theatre: the original “modern masterpiece” (New York Post) West End production of Andrew to Australia in all its original glory. Lloyd Webber’s Evita, directed by Featuring some of Andrew Lloyd Hal Prince and starring Tina Arena. Webber’s best-loved songs including Legendary Broadway director ‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina’, Hal Prince has won 21 Tony Awards, ‘On This Night of a Thousand Stars’, more than any person in history. ‘You Must Love Me’, and ‘Another Hal Prince will be joined by fellow Suitcase in Another Hall’, Evita charts original creative team members the story of Eva Peron, wife of former including choreographer Larry Fuller Argentine dictator Juan Peron, and designer Timothy O’Brien, who from her humble beginnings through returns to Opera Australia 40 years to the extraordinary wealth, power after designing Elijah Moshinsky’s and status which ultimately led her A Midsummer Night’s Dream to be heralded as the ‘spiritual leader for us in 1978. of the nation’.

23 | 24 But what if all the quiet, the comfort, the contentment were to end in horror? NEW PRODUCTION NEW Mazda Opera in the Domain The most famous arias, under the stars — free!

It’s a tradition: every year, thousands Saturday 13 January at 8pm of Sydneysiders head to the Domain The Domain with picnics packed and friends in tow. Free Hear our brightest stars, under the

Photo: Simon Lobelson (Georges Antoni) stars, sing opera’s most famous arias with the magnificent backing of the OPERA AUSTRALIA VENUE SUPPORTER IN ASSOCIATION WITH Opera Australia Orchestra. PRINCIPAL PARTNER Dress up — or not — it’s your night to enjoy the power of the human voice in the kind of communal, cultural celebration Sydney loves best.

By Opera Australia Franz Kafka Scenery Workshop Adapted by The Opera Centre Steven Berkoff Dawson Street Music by Surry Hills Brian Howard Evenings at 7pm Metamorphosis Conductor September 26, 27, Paul Fitzsimon 28, 29 Howard Director Tama Matheson Performed in English. Set & Costume Gregor is a broken man, exhausted by Director Tama Matheson and designer Designer Running time: eternal work and an ungrateful family. Mark Thompson focus their creative Mark Thompson approximately 1 hour Lighting Designer and 30 minutes. Until one morning, he awakes, and is talents on an unusual stage. This John Rayment not a man at all. chamber opera will take place in the Opera Australia scenery workshop Kafka’s grotesque tragedy of a man Gregor — that magical space where castles, Simon Lobelson turned insect is an engrossing story. tombs and salons rise from piles of Greta Music adds an edgy intensity: Julie Lea Goodwin plywood. This season, it becomes a Metamorphosis as opera is riveting, Father performance space, where a talented shattering, morbidly fascinating theatre. Christopher Hillier cast perform this contemporary piece. Mother Brian Howard’s score is percussive, Taryn Fiebig Simon Lobelson performs the Chief Clerk inventive and courageous. Twelve demanding role of Gregor and Adrian Tamburini musicians and six singers ratchet up Lodger Paul Fitzsimon conducts. Photo: Ben Symons Benjamin Rasheed the horror and pathos of this work: a story of social alienation in a modern, Chamber Ensemble inhuman world.

25 | 26 4 August 4 September PINCHGUT OPERA PRESENTS Tamworth Albury PINCHGUT OPERA PRESENTS 9 August ACT tour dates: Armidale 6–8 September Canberra

NATIONAL TOUR NATIONAL 11 August Theatre Centre HANDEL’S Port Macquarie You can add HANDEL’S VIVICA 14 August performances at Newcastle Canberra Theatre VIVICA Centre to your GENAUX 16 August subscription package. ATHALIA Bathurst See page 34 for prices. GENAUX ATHALIAA Boy. The Queen 18 August To find booking details A Queen. of opera Parramatta for each venue, as well A Boy. The Queen as dates in Victoria and A Queen.A Murder. of inopera Hasse’s 22 & 23 August Tasmania, visit Artaserse Wollongong opera.org.au/on-tour A Murder. in Hasse’s Artaserse 25 August NATIONAL TOUR LEADING PARTNER Dubbo

28 August Orange

30 August Wagga Wagga

Madame Butterfly Puccini

Conductor A man enchanted by Madame Butterfly is a love story Warwick Stengards that reaches across cultures, across Director the beauty of the East. John Bell oceans, across time. Set & Costume Puccini’s popular opera inspired the Designer A woman in love with Jennie Tate the promise of the West. musical Miss Saigon. It is filled with Set & Costumes gorgeous music, from the lovers’ first With Emma Pearson, Miriam Allan, Clint van der Linde, With Vivica Genaux, David Hansen, Emily Edmonds, Realised By Brenton Spiteri, David Greco Carlo Vistoli, Andrew Goodwin, Russell Harcourt rapturous embrace to the intense With Emma Pearson, Miriam Allan, Clint van der Linde, With Vivica Genaux, David Hansen, Emily Edmonds, Julie Lynch Separated by a vast ocean Erin Helyard conductor Lindy Hume director Erin Helyard conductor Chas Rader-Shieber director Lighting Designer finale. It features the famous aria Brenton Spiteri, David Greco Carlo Vistoli, Andrew Goodwin, Russell Harcourt Cantillation and Orchestra of the Antipodes Orchestra of the Antipodes Matt Scott and many years, what ‘One Fine Day’ and the Humming Erin Helyard conductor Lindy Hume director Erin Helyard conductor Chas Rader-Shieber director Choreographer Chorus, along with Japanese and CantillationTHURS and 21 JUNOrchestra 7pm, SATof the 23 Antipodes JUN 2pm, THURS 29Orchestra NOV 7pm of, SAT the 1 Antipodes DEC 2pm, SUN 2 DEC 5pm, Sachiko Tange will become of their love? American musical themes. SUN 24 JUN 5pm, TUES 26 JUN 7pm TUES 4 DEC 7pm, WED 5 DEC 7pm

Photo: (Georges James Egglestone Antoni) THURS 21 JUN 7pm, SAT 23 JUN 2pm, THURS 29 NOV 7pm, SAT 1 DEC 2pm, SUN 2 DEC 5pm, Chamber Orchestra One of Australia’s greatest theatrical SUN 24 JUNCITY 5pm, RECITAL TUES 26 HALL JUN 7pm TUES 4 DECCITY 7pm RECITAL, WED 5 DECHALL 7pm minds, John Bell, directs this English- CITY RECITAL HALL CITY RECITAL HALL Performed in English. language production, complete with Running time: beautiful costumes and sets. Book tickets to Pinchgut Opera in addition to your Opera Australia subscription approximately 2 hours Bookand tickets receive to 10% Pinchgut off the Opera purchase in addition price of to your your tickets. Opera AustraliaSimply book subscription 3 or more Hear Opera Australia’s wonderful and 30 minutes, andOA receive productions 10% off and the thenpurchase add Handelprice of and/or your tickets. Vivica Simplyas additional book 3 tickets. or more including one interval. singers perform with a chamber OA productions and then add Handel and/or Vivica as additional tickets. orchestra, along with a children’s pinchgutopera.com.au | [email protected] | (02) 9318 8344 chorus, drawn from local communities. pinchgutopera.com.au | [email protected] | (02) 9318 8344 Great Opera For Everyone

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David Arts Centre Melbourne Die Meistersinger David Portillo Hans Sachs Evenings at 4pm James Johnson November 13, 19, 22 Sixtus Beckmesser Matinée at 12pm von Nürnberg Warwick Fyfe November 17 Veit Pogner Wagner Daniel Sumegi Sung in German with Conductor Fritz Kothner English surtitles. Pietari Inkinen Luke Gabbedy Director Nightwatchman Running time: Kasper Holten Adrian Tamburini approximately 6 hours, Revival Director Kunz Vogelgesang including two intervals. Melbourne only Dan Dooner John Longmuir Set Designer Balthazar Zorn A co-production Wagner’s beloved comedy takes a Mia Stensgaard Nicholas Jones between Royal Opera joyful look at the art of music itself: Costume Designer Augustin Moser House Covent Garden, what is wrong, what is right, and Anja Vang Kragh Kanen Breen Opera Australia, and Lighting Designer Ulrich Eisslinger The National Centre for who decides. Jesper Kongshaug Graeme Macfarlane Performing Arts, Beijing. Choreographer Konrad Nachtigall Kasper Holten’s extravagant Signe Fabricius Andrew Jones Barda) (Clive House Opera © Royal Photo: staging for the Royal Opera House Assistant Director Hermann Ortel celebrates change: how the deepest Matthew Barclay Michael Honeyman of traditions can give way to Hans Foltz Eva Gennadi Dubinsky something powerful and new. Natalie Aroyan Hans Schwarz Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Magdalene Richard Anderson Dominica Matthews is a glowing testament to the Walther von Stolzing Opera Australia Chorus wonder of human artistry. Stefan Vinke Orchestra Victoria

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MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN DECEMBER 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NYE Gala 7:45pm Lucia 7:30pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Lucia 1pm Widow 8pm (Nucci) (talk 12:15pm) July

JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Widow 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 1pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Lucia 7:30pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm (Nucci) (Nucci) (talk 6:45pm) 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

January Widow 6:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 1pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Aida 7:30pm Lucia 7:30pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Aida 1pm Widow 7:30pm Lucia 7:30pm (talk 6:45pm) (talk 6:45pm) Domain 8pm 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Lucia 7:30pm Aida 7:30pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Aida 7:30pm Lucia 7:30pm Rigoletto 12:30pm 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 (talk 6:45pm) Aida 7:30pm Widow 6:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 1pm (talk 6:45pm) (talk 12:15pm, audio described) 30 31 AUGUST 1 2 3 4 5 Widow 7:30pm Aida 7:30pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Aida 1pm (talk 12:15pm, 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 audio described) Widow 6:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 1pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Aida 7:30pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Aida 7:30pm Turk 7:30pm Rigoletto 12:30pm 29 30 31 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 4 (talk 11:45am) Widow 6:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 7:30pm Widow 1pm Aida 7:30pm (talk 5:45pm) Widow 7:30pm

August 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Aida 7:30pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Turk 7:30pm Aida 7:30pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Turk 12:30pm 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 (talk 6:45pm) (talk 6:45pm) (talk 11:45am) Carmen 7:30pm Aida 7:30pm 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Aida 7:30pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Aida 7:30pm Turk 7:30pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Aida 1pm 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 (talk 6:45pm) Turk 7:30pm Carmen 7:30pm Carmen 7:30pm Carmen 7:30pm

February (talk 6:45pm) 27 28 29 30 31 SEPTEMBER 1 2 Aida 7:30pm Turk 7:30pm Aida 7:30pm Turk 7:30pm Aida 7:30pm Turk 7:30pm 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (talk 6:45pm) Carmen 7:30pm Nose 7:30pm Carmen 7:30pm Nose 7:30pm Carmen 7:30pm

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Butterfly 7:30pm Butterfly 7:30pm Butterfly 1pm 26 27 28 MARCH 1 2 3 4 (Canberra) (Canberra) (Canberra) Nose 7:30pm Carmen 7:30pm Nose 7:30pm Traviata 7:30pm Carmen 7:30pm Nose 1pm Butterfly 7:30pm (talk 6:45pm) (talk 6:45pm) (talk 6:45pm) (talk 12:15pm) (Canberra) Traviata 7:30pm 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Traviata 7:30pm Carmen 1pm (talk 6:45pm) (talk 12:15pm) September Traviata 7:30pm (talk 6:45pm) March 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Evita 7:30pm Evita 1pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 1pm Evita 3pm 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Evita 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm Traviata 7:30pm Traviata 7:30pm Carmen 7:30pm Quichotte 7:30pm Traviata 1pm (talk 12:15pm) Carmen 7:30pm 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Evita 7:30pm Evita 1pm Metamorphosis 7pm Metamorphosis 7pm Evita 1pm Evita 3pm 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Metamorphosis 7pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm Metamorphosis 7pm Quichotte 7:30pm Traviata 7:30pm Quichotte 7:30pm Traviata 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Quichotte 1pm Bohème 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm (talk 6:45pm) Carmen 7:30pm (talk 12:15pm, audio described) OCTOBER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bohème 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 1pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 1pm Evita 3pm Traviata 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm

26 27 28 29 30 31 APRIL 1 Quichotte 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Traviata 7:30pm Quichotte 7:30pm October Evita 7:30pm Evita 1pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 1pm Evita 6pm (talk 6:45pm) Evita 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Evita 1pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 1pm Evita 3pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm April 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Evita 1pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 1pm Evita 3pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm Bohème 7:30pm 29 30 31 NOVEMBER 1 2 3 4 Evita 1pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 7:30pm Evita 1pm Evita 7:30pm

JUNE 25 26 27 28 29 30 JULY 1 Lucia 7:30pm Lucia 7:30pm June

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La Bohème Carmen, Nose, Traviata, SUNDAY – THURSDAY SUNDAY – THURSDAY Quichotte, Lucia, Aida, Turk, MONDAY – FRIDAY MONDAY – FRIDAY (Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour) Rigoletto (except July 6, 11, 14) P A B C D P A B C D P A B C D E P A B C D E FULL PRICE 284 241 196 145 89 252 214 174 129 79 FULL PRICE 284 241 196 145 89 68 252 214 174 129 79 60 PENSIONER 256 217 176 131 80 227 193 157 116 71 PENSIONER 256 217 176 131 80 61 227 193 157 116 71 54 FRIDAY & SATURDAY FRIDAY & SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY P A B C D P A B C D P A B C D E P A B C D E FULL PRICE 313 260 212 156 106 278 231 189 138 94 FULL PRICE 313 260 212 156 106 77 278 231 189 138 94 68 PENSIONER 282 234 191 140 95 250 208 170 124 85 PENSIONER 282 234 191 140 95 69 250 208 170 124 85 61 Metamorphosis (The Opera Centre) ALL PERFORMANCES ALL PERFORMANCES Rigoletto JULY 6, 11, 14 JULY 6, 11, 14 (with Leo Nucci) FULL PRICE 71 63 P A B C D E P A B C D E PENSIONER 64 57 FULL PRICE / UNDER 30 359 302 245 182 112 81 319 268 218 162 99 72 UNDER 30 36 36 PENSIONER 323 272 221 164 101 73 287 241 196 146 89 65 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Arts Centre Melbourne) ALL PERFORMANCES ALL PERFORMANCES The Merry Widow MONDAY – FRIDAY & SATURDAY MATINÉE MONDAY – FRIDAY & SATURDAY MATINÉE P A B C D P A B C D P A B C D E P A B C D E FULL PRICE 338 240 179 129 81 300 214 159 114 72 FULL PRICE 242 199 161 120 89 68 215 177 143 106 79 60 PENSIONER 304 216 161 116 73 270 193 143 103 65 PENSIONER 218 179 145 108 80 61 194 159 129 95 71 54 Madame Butterfly SATURDAY EVENING SATURDAY EVENING (Canberra Theatre Centre) ALL PERFORMANCES ALL PERFORMANCES P A B C D E P A B C D E P A B C P A B C FULL PRICE 269 231 176 128 106 77 239 206 156 114 94 68 FULL PRICE 108 99 63 63 96 89 57 57 PENSIONER 242 208 158 115 95 69 215 185 140 103 85 61 PENSIONER / UNDER 30 108 72 54 54 96 65 49 49 Evita TUESDAY – FRIDAY EVENINGS TUESDAY – FRIDAY EVENINGS Pinchgut P A B C* P A B C* Handel, Vivica (City Recital Hall) MONDAY – FRIDAY MONDAY – FRIDAY FULL PRICE 207 135 99 90 184 122 89 81 P A B C P A B C PENSIONER / UNDER 30 207 126 90 63 184 113 81 57 FULL PRICE / PENSIONER 164 141 116 84 164 141 116 84 UNDER 30 164 141 60 50 164 141 60 50 WEDNESDAY MATINÉES WEDNESDAY MATINÉES P A B C* P A B C* SATURDAY & SUNDAY SATURDAY & SUNDAY FULL PRICE 162 126 99 63 144 113 89 57 P A B C P A B C PENSIONER / UNDER 30 162 117 90 63 144 105 81 57 FULL PRICE / PENSIONER 174 151 125 87 174 151 125 87 UNDER 30 174 151 65 55 174 151 65 55 SATURDAY MATINÉES & SUNDAY SATURDAY MATINÉES & SUNDAY P A B C* P A B C* New Year’s Eve OPERA GALA OR THE MERRY WIDOW OPERA GALA OR THE MERRY WIDOW FULL PRICE 225 180 117 90 200 162 105 81 P A B C P A B C PENSIONER / UNDER 30 225 171 117 90 200 154 105 81 FULL PRICE 431 359 323 269 383 319 287 239

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