MELBOURNE SEASON 2019

PATRON-IN-CHIEF DR HARUHISA HANDA Welcome to our 2019 Season

Within the hubbub and the incessant white noise that pervades contemporary The most famous arias, life, a beautiful sound or an achingly emotional melody provides us with under the stars — free! ­ momentary respite. Love talking about opera? When a profound text is illuminated by From Giacomo Puccini to Aribert Reimann, Sign up for our e-newsletter at astonishingly beautiful singing, we find there will be music that touches your soul opera.org.au and join the that we have been transported to another and singing that will astonish you with its Mazda Opera conversation on Facebook, plane of emotional existence. beauty, power and emotion. Twitter, Instagram This is the essence of great art. I’m very much looking forward to sharing and YouTube. these extraordinary moments with you When we feel that we are the only person in the Bowl as we experience the surprising simplicity If you would like to be in the theatre or that the artist on stage that can be found in the great operas you is singing only to us, we find a solace and It’s a Saturday evening in spring. Sidney Music Bowl sent a copy of the will be able to enjoy this coming year. an experience that we treasure. You’re sitting in the park with family Saturday 24 November 2018 at 8pm text in this brochure Free! No need to book, just come along. I look forward to your company, and friends, and a fabulous picnic dinner. There will be moments in this year of Gates open 4pm. printed in a larger The picture is complete when the opera that will speak to us in this extremely Lyndon glorious live music begins. font, please phone special way and allow us to be part of (03) 9685 3700. an experience that happens rarely in our Hear our brightest stars, under the stars, daily lives. sing opera’s most famous arias with the OPERA VENUE magnificent backing of Orchestra . HERO PARTNER PARTNER If we allow ourselves to be open to the embrace of music and text, which Dress up — or not — it’s your night to is the essence of opera, we are able to enjoy the power of the human voice in transcend the white noise and experience Comm. Lyndon Terracini AM the kind of communal, cultural celebration the majestic purity of great art. Artistic Director loves best.

Photo: (Joe Castro) 1 | 2 Countess Ceprano Conductor Leah Thomas RIGOLETTO Andrea Licata Page VERDI Director Jennifer Bonner Elijah Moshinsky Usher Revival Director Ryan Sharp He’s hideous. He’s hated. He’s untouchable. Hugh Halliday Set & Costume Chorus But in this shimmering world of secrets and seduction, Designer Michael Yeargan can he keep the one he loves most safe? Lighting Designer Robert Bryan Elijah Moshinsky’s much-loved production Evenings at 7:30pm returns to the Arts Centre Rigoletto May 11, 15, 22, 25, 27, 29 From the moment he wrote it, Verdi of Rigoletto Amartuvshin knew he had a hit on his hands. The story Melbourne stage, complete with its Enkhbat La Dolce Vita-inspired sets Saturday matinee had everything: royalty, loyalty, deformity, glamorous Duke of Mantua at 12:30pm and costumes, and scene-stealing car. Liparit Avetisyan May 18 devotion, lust and revenge. Gilda The revolving dollhouse-style set gives Stacey Alleaume Please note: And the music? The music was sensational, a cinematic detail to each scene. Monterone this production contains so full of hummable tunes that Verdi Gennadi Dubinsky strobe lighting effects. demanded complete secrecy from his Andrea Licata returns to conduct an Sparafucile premiere cast. The tenor was forbidden exciting cast of international and homegrown Teddy Tahu Rhodes Running time: stars. Melbourne soprano Stacey Alleaume Maddalena approximately 2 hours from even whistling the catchy ‘La donna Sian Pendry makes her debut as Gilda with Mongolian and 20 minutes, è mobile’ outside of rehearsals. Marullo including one interval. Rigoletto’s triumphant baritone Amartuvshin Enkhbat, who won the Luke Gabbedy The morning after Audience Prize at the 2015 BBC Cardiff Singer Borsa Sung in Italian with premiere, that melody rang out in the streets: of the World competition, as Rigoletto. Virgilio Marino English surtitles. Ceprano a hit for ever after. The title character Verdi Remarkable young Armenian tenor Liparit Christopher Hillier PRODUCTION PARTNER called the “greatest creation” in the history Avetisyan sings the Duke of Mantua and Giovanna of theatre had found a home in a masterpiece Teddy Tahu Rhodes shows his dark side Dominica Matthews of music. as the assassin Sparafucile.

3 | 4 Photo: (Georges Antoni) Mozart’s opera about testing fidelity Absurd? Yes, but Mozart’s luminous music Laugh at love, old man, for Conductor Ferrando is an intriguing story set to music of takes the absurd and makes it sublime. Keri-Lynn Wilson Pavel Petrov impossible beauty. Two men disguise you and I both know that Director Guglielmo Come along for a merry ride and you’ll Sir David McVicar Samuel Dundas themselves as Albanians and attempt see that under that veil of farce is a poignant women are all the same. Revival Director Don Alfonso to seduce each other’s lover in an Andy Morton Richard Anderson drama about love, faith, loss and sex. elaborate ruse to win a bet, at the But don’t say your heart isn’t Set & Costume Designer Opera Australia Chorus urging of the cynical old philosopher Acclaimed director Sir David McVicar NEW PRODUCTION NEW moved when I sing of love... Moritz Junge Orchestra Victoria Don Alfonso. sets this bittersweet romantic comedy Lighting Designer in the early 1900s, just before WWI David Finn Arts Centre Melbourne changed the world forever. Moritz Junge’s Fiordiligi Evenings at 7pm ravishing costumes and sun-bathed Jane Ede May 14, 18, 21, 23 set designs add to the beauty on stage. Dorabella Leading maestra Keri-Lynn Wilson Anna Dowsley Saturday matinee makes her Australian debut. Despina at 12:30pm Così fan Taryn Fiebig May 25 Running time: approximately 3 hours tutte and 30 minutes, including one interval. MOZART Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

Photo: Anna Dowsley, Jane Ede, Samuel Dundas & Richard Anderson (Georges Antoni) 5 | 6 Conductor Lighting Design Cavalier Belfiore Don Luigino Arts Centre Melbourne Sung in Italian with Daniel Smith realised by Juan de Dios Mateos John Longmuir English surtitles. Director Ludovico Gobbi Conte di Libenskof Antonio Evenings at 7pm Damiano Michieletto Assistant Director Shanul Sharma Christopher Hillier May 24, 28, 30 A co-production of the Revival Director Constantine Costi Barone di Trombonok Delia Dutch National Opera, A Magritte, a van Gogh Eleonora Gravagnola Warwick Fyfe Kathryn Radcliffe Saturday matinee Amsterdam, Opera Set Designer Corinna Lord Sidney Modestina at 12:30pm Australia, and Royal Danish and a Goya walk into a gallery… Paolo Fantin Lorina Gore Teddy Tahu Rhodes Eva Kong June 1 Opera, Copenhagen.

NEW PRODUCTION NEW Costume Designer Contessa di Folleville Don Profondo Zefirino Carla Teti Emma Pearson Giorgio Caoduro Stuart Haycock Running time: Lighting Designer Madama Cortese Don Alvaro approximately 3 hours Alessandro Carletti Julie Lea Goodwin Luke Gabbedy Opera Australia Chorus and 20 minutes, Marchesa Melibea Don Prudenzio Orchestra Victoria including one interval. Sian Pendry Conal Coad

If Rossini made a showreel of his best In Damiano Michieletto’s playful take, Gaze at the world’s most famous art work, it would sound like Il Viaggio a Reims the eccentric cast of characters find through the magnificent (and thoroughly (The Journey to Reims). The prolific themselves in a gallery filled with the tongue-in-cheek) sets and costumes. composer was unabashedly showing master works of art history. Velázquez’s Paolo Fantin and Carla Teti have recreated IL VIAGGIO off when he wrote this incredible work, enormous dresses jostle for space iconic works with remarkable fidelity. destined to dazzle the aristocracy at the with Keith Haring’s cheerful murals. Young Australian conductor Daniel Smith crowning of Charles X and then disappear Frida Kahlo and van Gogh compare makes his long-awaited debut with Opera forever. The simple plot is a marvellous self-portraits. It’s a surreal world, Australia, bringing his characteristic excuse for a string of fantastic arias and where artworks step out of the frame A REIMS sparkle in the pit to a huge cast of talents. ROSSINI impressive ensemble pieces. and come to life the moment the lights go out. Because it’s so demanding and expensive to stage, it’s never been seen in Australia Delightful, surprising, spectacular before. But in 2019, Rossini’s exultant and frivolous, this co-production with opera finally makes its Australian Dutch National Opera and the Royal premiere, a spectacular vehicle for Danish Theatre is a perfect foil for some of your favourite performers. Rossini’s jubilant score.

Photo: (© Clärchen and Matthias Baus) 7 | 8 Director and NEW PRODUCTION Opera Australia and GWB Entertainment present Choreographer the BB Group production of Joey McKneely Musical Supervisor Performed at Arts Centre Melbourne Donald Chan Set Designer Paul Gallis THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CLASSIC Costume Designer Renate Schmitzer Make-up Designer The moment the curtain went up on A modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet; Hannelore Uhrmacher West Side Story on Broadway in 1957, this tragic love story is set in a New York Sound Designer Matt Grounds changed forever. City enveloped by bitter tension between Lighting Designer two teenage gangs: the Jets, self-styled Peter Halbsgut Hailed as the greatest Broadway musical “Americans”, and the Sharks, a group of Re-light Designer of all time, the genius of West Side young Puerto Ricans. Adam Sutton Story’s creators is unquestioned. The remarkable collaboration between The musical’s rapturous songs, vivid Arts Centre Melbourne Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, drama, passionate dance and rich Evenings at 7:30pm Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins orchestrations coalesce in an enduring Apr 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, produced a timeless masterpiece. work about love versus hate. 20, 24, 25, 26, 27 Evenings at 7pm Bernstein’s lyrical and evocative score Director Joey McKneely’s vibrant new Apr 9, 16, 23 features unforgettable songs including staging will feature Australia’s brightest Sunday matinees at 3pm ‘Maria’, ‘Tonight’, ‘Somewhere’, ‘America’ young talent. Coupled with Bernstein’s Apr 14, 21, 28 and ‘I Feel Pretty’, that have been lush, boundary-crossing score brought to Saturday matinees at 2pm universally adored for generations; life by the orchestra, and Robbins’ original, Apr 13, 20, 27 proving this iconic dance musical ground-breaking choreography, this Matinees at 1pm Apr 10, 16, 17, 24 remains as spirited, achingly intimate, energetic production is not to be missed. and as potent today as on the day of Please note: its premiere. the performance schedule differs on certain dates. See the calendar on page 25 for details.

Performed in English. Something’s coming, something good…

Photo: (Johan Persson) 9 | 10 TURANDOT PUCCINI

When Pavarotti sang out the top B in Turandot is a fantasy opera of poetry Torture and death mean nothing. Puccini’s ‘Nessun dorma’ across a huge and myth, set in an exotic world where crowd at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, fear and love go hand in hand and Freedom means everything. the world collectively held its breath. death is always just around the corner. Can the princess win her heart’s desire? A generation of football fans were ‘Nessun dorma’ is just one of its learning what opera was all about — magnificent moments. music that can transport you to another Renowned conductor Christian Badea world, another place, a place where returns to Australia to conduct a emotion wells up inside you at the thrilling cast: Lise Lindstrom as the ice sound of a single note. princess, Walter Fraccaro as the man “Vincerò”, the tenor cries — determined to win her heart and “I will win! I will WIN!” Karah Son as his devoted servant, Liù.

Truthfully, few of the millions of people Conductor Arts Centre Melbourne who watched that broadcast had an Christian Badea Director & Evenings at 7:30pm inkling of what the power of that music Choreographer Nov 19, 21, 23, 26, 28 can be. Few had seen Turandot — Graeme Murphy Dec 2, 4, 6 Puccini’s opera about a brutal princess Revival Director and an impossibly brave suitor, who Kim Walker Saturday matinee Set & Costume Designer at 1pm will make any sacrifice to win her love. Kristian Fredrikson Nov 30 Lighting Designer John Drummond Running time: Montgomery approximately 2 hours Assistant Director and 45 minutes, Matthew Barclay including two intervals.

Turandot Sung in Italian with Lise Lindstrom English surtitles. Calàf Walter Fraccaro PRODUCTION PARTNER Liù Karah Son Timur Richard Anderson Pong John Longmuir Pang Virgilio Marino Ping Christopher Hillier Emperor Graeme Macfarlane Mandarin Andrew Moran

Opera Australia Chorus Opera Australia Children’s Chorus Orchestra Victoria

Photo: (Georges Antoni) 11 | 12 Conductor Arts Centre Melbourne Guillaume Tourniaire Director Evenings at 7pm Sir David McVicar Nov 27, 29 Revival Director Dec 3, 5 Bruno Ravella What would you give up Set Designer Saturday matinee Charles Edwards at 12:30pm

NEW PRODUCTION NEW your soul for? Costume Designer Dec 7 Brigitte Reiffenstuel Lighting Designer Please note: Paule Constable this production Lighting realised by contains strobe David Harvey lighting effects Choreographer and adult themes; Michael Keegan-Dolan not recommended Revival Choreographer for children. & Assistant Director Shane Placentino Running time: approximately 3 hours Faust and 20 minutes, Saimir Pirgu including one interval. Marguerite Maria Mudryak Sung in French with Méphistophélès English surtitles. Teddy Tahu Rhodes FAUST Valentin Based on the GOUNOD Luke Gabbedy co-production by Siébel Royal Opera House Anna Dowsley Covent Garden, Marthe Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Dominica Matthews Opéra de Lille, and Wagner Fondazione Teatro Lirico Shane Lowrencev Giuseppe Verdi, Trieste and first performed Opera Australia Chorus at Covent Garden. Orchestra Victoria PRODUCTION PARTNER

Faust intends to win his heart’s desires, Brigitte Reiffenstuel’s lavish costumes even if it costs him his soul. Led into are truly spectacular. The images are at temptation by the charming Méphistophélès, once delightful and disturbing, a reminder the ageing academic swaps moral restraint that given the chance, any one of us for a salacious journey through life’s earthly might stumble down Faust’s road. pleasures. But as the lives around him start Behind all this is the resounding beauty to unravel, the devil, it seems, is in the detail. of Gounod’s music, including the famous Sir David McVicar’s grand production ‘Soldier’s Chorus’, the rousing ‘Le veau d’or’ sets the opera in the composer’s own time: and Marguerite’s beautiful ‘Jewel Song’. the decadence and debauchery of 1870s Faust is grand opera at its very best, . Between towering cathedral columns with a hefty dose of theatricality and and the crumbling proscenium arch of wit from a director renowned for his the theatre, Faust’s terrible pact plays out nuanced productions. in all of its sinister splendour. French maestro Guillaume Tourniaire And splendid it is. Charles Edwards’ leads an exciting cast. Saimir Pirgu stunning sets recreate iconic Paris landmarks, sings the title role with the impossibly including a colourful Cabaret de L’Enfer, young Kazakh soprano, Maria Mudryak, an opera box from the Palais Garnier and as Marguerite. Teddy Tahu Rhodes is the organ loft of Notre-Dame. dazzling as Méphistophélès.

Photo: Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Georges Antoni) 13 | 14 OPERA AUSTRALIA JOHN FROST DAVID IAN

Starring NEW PRODUCTION NEW Legendary Broadway director Hal Prince has won 21 Tony Awards, more than any TINA person in history. Hal Prince will be joined by fellow original creative team members including choreographer Larry Fuller and ARENA designer Timothy O’Brien, who returns to as Eva Perón Opera Australia 40 years after designing Elijah Moshinsky’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for us in 1978. Performing with will be some of Australia’s shining musical theatre and opera stars, including opera superstar, Paulo Szot, fresh from the West End, Kurt Kansley, acclaimed musical After sell-out productions including theatre performer, , and Eva Perón South Pacific, The King and I and introducing Alexis van Maanen. Tina Arena most recently the 60th anniversary (except Dec 12, 19 at Featuring some of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 7:30pm; Dec 30 at 1pm) production of My Fair Lady, we once best-loved songs including ‘Don’t Cry For Jemma Rix again re-create one of the greatest (Dec 12, 19 at 7:30pm; Me Argentina’, ‘On This Night of a Thousand works of musical theatre: the original Dec 30 at 1pm) Stars’, ‘You Must Love Me’, and ‘Another Juan Perón West End production of Andrew Lloyd Suitcase in Another Hall’, charts the Paulo Szot Webber’s Evita, directed by Hal Prince story of Eva Perón, wife of former Argentine Che and starring Tina Arena. Kurt Kansley dictator Juan Perón, from her humble Magaldi and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beginnings through to the extraordinary Michael Falzon Evita is iconic, with more than 20 wealth, power and status which ultimately Mistress major awards to its credit, including led her to be heralded as the ‘spiritual Alexis van Maanen the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best leader of the nation’. Arts Centre Melbourne Musical, a Golden Globe and an Oscar. From 5 December 2018 This musical captured the attention of the public when it was first staged Tuesday evenings at 6:30pm in 1978 and in its 40th year and Wednesday–Saturday evenings at 7:30pm Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 70th year, Lyrics by we are thrilled to bring this “modern Tim Rice Wednesday matinees at 1pm masterpiece” (New York Post) to Music by Saturday matinees at 2pm Andrew Lloyd Webber Sunday matinees at 3pm Australia in all its original glory. Director Please note: Hal Prince the performance schedule Designer differs on certain dates. Timothy O’Brien See the calendar on Choreographer page 25 for details. Larry Fuller Lighting Designer Performed in English. Richard Winkler Sound Designer Mick Potter Projection Designer Duncan McLean Orchestrations David Cullen Musical Supervisor Guy Simpson

15 | 16 Conductor Pinchas Steinberg ONE NIGHT ONLY NIGHT ONE Andrea Chénier Jonas Kaufmann Maddalena Eva-Maria Westbroek Carlo Gérard Ludovic Tézier Bersi Sian Pendry Madelon Anna Dowsley The Incredibile Benjamin Rasheed Roucher Richard Anderson Mathieu Luke Gabbedy Contessa di Coigny Andrea Chénier is in danger of losing Superstar tenor Jonas Kaufmann Dominica Matthews his head. As France cowers under returns to Australia in one of his most The Abbé Graeme Macfarlane the Reign of Terror, the poet is falling celebrated roles. A concert performance Fléville madly, passionately in love. of Andrea Chénier offers the perfect Christopher Hillier showcase for his “dark, liquid tone, which Fouquier-Tinville / Schmidt A gripping story based on true events soars through the music with refined Alexander Hargreaves unfolds swiftly in Giordano’s famous ease and intensity” (The Guardian). opera, beloved by audiences and Opera Australia Chorus A stellar supporting cast includes Ludovic performers for its magnificent arias, Opera Australia Orchestra Tézier, one of the world’s greatest tender love story and dramatic music. baritones, and Eva-Maria Westbroek Hamer Hall Arts Centre Melbourne A poet, a philosopher and defender of as Chénier’s lover, Maddalena, who sings the poor, Chénier believes in the ideals the heartbreaking ‘La mamma morta’. Tuesday 13 August at 7pm of his revolutionary brothers: Liberty! Released from the orchestra pit, and Equality! Fraternity! Now the revolution Running time: onto the stage of Hamer Hall, you’ll hear approximately 2 hours is over, but La Guillotine hasn’t lost her the Opera Australia Orchestra in all and 20 minutes, taste for blood. The revolutionaries, including one interval. their glory, led by renowned conductor once so idealistic, are turning on their Pinchas Steinberg. own to keep her fed. Sung in Italian with English surtitles. The life and soul of the world is love!

In concert ANDREA CHÉNIER GIORDANO

Photo: Jonas Kaufmann (© Gregor Hohenberg / Sony Classical) 17 | 18 Based on the play by The Colonel August Strindberg John Longmuir Music by The Student Aribert Reimann Shanul Sharma The Young Woman Conductor Danita Weatherstone Warwick Stengards Johansson Director Virgilio Marino

NEW PRODUCTION NEW Greg Eldridge Bengtsson Designer Alexander Hargreaves Emma Kingsbury Lighting Designer Opera Australia Orchestra John Rayment The Coopers Malthouse, The Old Man Merlyn Theatre, Richard Anderson 133 Sturt Street, The Mummy / Southbank Dark Lady / Cook Dominica Matthews Evenings at 7pm Sep 25, 26, 27

Saturday matinee at 2pm Sep 28

Running time: approximately 90 minutes, with no interval.

Sung in English. GHOST SONATA REIMANN

At the Ghost’s Supper, no one can Aribert Reimann’s 1984 opera is Our crimes bind us, our conceal their ugliness. Inside or outside, a haunting and evocative chamber it dwells in us all. work, exploring Strindberg’s moody secrets, our guilt. We have text with complex rhythms and Come into the unsettling world of tried to break away… other-worldly tones. Strindberg’s Ghost Sonata, where But we always come back. nothing is as it seems. Bewitched by Director Greg Eldridge creates a woman’s beauty and drawn into a a chilling picture of Strindberg’s stranger’s sinister plans, a student enters Stockholm in this new staging a handsome house. In that wretched at the The Coopers Malthouse. place, food is poison. The dead are alive. Paradise proves rotten inside.

Photo: (Georges Antoni) 19 | 20 The governor is in a pickle. Those bankers are so fickle!

NEW PRODUCTION NEW He’s stretched the state Created by Robert Andrew Greene purse a little too far and his Additional Material by Dean Bryant creditors will soon come Music Director a-knocking. Robert Andrew Greene Director Dean Bryant But twin daughters he’s got, Set Designer Owen Phillips so he hatches a plot, which Costume Designer Tim Chappel might save him from a Lighting Designer John Rayment royal bollocking! Sound Designer Adrian Riddell Choreographer A double wedding could Set sail for French Morocco where Andrew Hallsworth save the day, but when the champagne flows, the clothes are Piano fabulous and the music is never dull. Robert Andrew Greene pesky pirates get in the way, All of your favourite operetta Violin Yuhki Mayne it’s up to Giroflé to make waltzes, polkas and songs by Strauss, Offenbach, Lehár and Kálmán come Giroflé / Girofla things ok. together in this raucous musical comedy Julie Lea Goodwin created by Robert Andrew Greene after Pedro / Celebrant / François / Australian some of the biggest names in operetta. Colonel Michael Petruccelli Some of Australia’s hottest young Marasquin talents join musical theatre stalwarts Nicholas Jones John Bolton Wood and Geraldine General Modigliani Turner in this frivolous farce. Andrew Jones Philippe The fizzy, fast-moving plot gives John Bolton Wood Aurore the cast a chance to flaunt an array Geraldine Turner of gorgeous, colourful costumes by Priscilla’s Tim Chappel. Playhouse Arts Centre Melbourne Two Evenings at 7:30pm Nov 7, 8, 9

Matinees at 2pm Weddings, Nov 9, 10 Running time: One approximately 90 minutes, with no interval. Sung in English. Bride

Photo: Julie Lea Goodwin (Keith Saunders) 21 | 22 Handa Opera on Harbour NEW PRODUCTION Giving opera to Australia Tonight, tonight the world is wild and bright. Going mad, shooting Our Patrons are at the sparks into space! heart of what we do

They give us the confidence to present ambitious new productions featuring the very best singers in the country. In 2019, West Side Story takes the Their contribution gives you and your iconic stage at Handa Opera on Sydney fellow audience members the opportunity Harbour. Encounter the wildness of to experience the extraordinary power youth and ecstasy of love as this modern of opera. WEST SIDE STORY day Romeo and Juliet unfolds under the starlit city skyline. BASED ON A CONCEPTION OF JEROME ROBBINS If you’ve never been to Handa Opera You’re part of our family BOOK BY MUSIC BY LYRICS BY on Sydney Harbour, prepare for a ARTHUR LEONARD STEPHEN remarkable night out. Arrive early As a Patron, we bring you behind the LAURENTS BERNSTEIN SONDHEIM to enjoy the sun setting over Sydney scenes and show you how we create Harbour as you raise a glass and drink the magic on stage. You’ll have the in the view at one of the five pop-up chance to meet our artists, conductors, ENTIRE ORIGINAL PRODUCTION DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY bars and restaurants on site. Then musicians and creative teams. JEROME ROBBINS take your place in the grandstand We invite you to join our Patron Help us create the next generation — by the water to enjoy the enthralling Program and support Opera Australia. show, complete with live orchestra support our Young Artist Program As a Patron, you’ll enjoy access to a Conductor Maria hidden beneath the dramatic stage personalised ticketing service and The development of young artists Your donation directly assists us Guy Simpson Julie Lea Goodwin and fireworks in the balmy night air. Director Tony invitations to opera insight evenings in this country is one of our greatest in cultivating the next generation Francesca Zambello Alexander Lewis An all-singing, all-dancing supporting with our Artistic Director, singers, obligations and one of our greatest of opera stars. Choreography cast takes on Leonard Bernstein’s chorus and orchestra members. privileges. As long as young singers with recreated by Fleet Steps, For more information visit brilliant score and Jerome Robbins’ extraordinary talent are cared for and Julio Monge Mrs Macquaries Point, For more information about opera.org.au/philanthropy Set Designer Sydney original, electrifying choreography. nurtured by imaginative and responsible the Patron Program, please contact Brian Thomson opera companies, there will be great All donations to the Moffatt Renowned director Francesca Zambello Catherine McElhone on (03) 9685 3752. Costume Designer Evenings at 7:30pm opera. It is as simple — and as difficult Oxenbould Young Artist Program Jennifer Irwin March 22–April 21 teams up with Brian Thomson and — as that. are tax deductible and donations Lighting Designer Tuesday–Sunday, Jennifer Irwin to create a brand new over $200 will be acknowledged John Rayment except Good on our website. Friday, 19 April production for the harbour-top stage. Opera Australia has been discovering and developing the talents of exceptional young artists for more than three decades. Each year Opera Australia offers a number of the most promising young singers in the country the opportunity to undertake a rigorous training program which includes individual vocal coaching, masterclasses, language and stagecraft coaching as Originally produced on Broadway by STRATEGIC AND PRINCIPAL OPERA AUSTRALIA well as performance opportunities Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince GOVERNMENT PARTNER PATRON GOVERNMENT PARTNER By arrangement with Roger L. Stevens in recitals and small roles on stage.

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Photo: Stacey Alleaume & Marcelo Puente (Prudence Upton) 23 | 24 Melbourne Season Calendar 2019 Prices Choose three or more productions to subscribe. Choose five or more for the biggest savings.

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APRIL 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Andrea Chénier in Concert at Hamer Hall AUGUST 13 AUGUST 13 West Side 7pm West Side 1pm West Side 7:30pm West Side 7:30pm West Side 2pm West Side 3pm P A B C D P A B C D West Side 7:30pm West Side 7:30pm FULL PRICE / YOUTH UNDER 30 350 278 206 161 107 311 247 183 143 95 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 PENSIONER 315 250 185 145 96 280 222 165 129 86 West Side 1pm West Side 1pm West Side 7:30pm West Side 2pm West Side 3pm Apr 2019 2019 Apr West Side 7pm West Side 7:30pm West Side 7:30pm Ghost Sonata at The Coopers Malthouse ALL PERFORMANCES ALL PERFORMANCES

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 FULL PRICE 80 71 West Side 7pm West Side 1pm West Side 7:30pm West Side 7:30pm West Side 2pm West Side 3pm PENSIONER 72 64 West Side 7:30pm West Side 7:30pm YOUTH UNDER 30 45 45 MAY 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Rigoletto 7:30pm Two Weddings, One Bride at Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne ALL PERFORMANCES ALL PERFORMANCES May P A P A 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Così 7pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Rigoletto 12:30pm FULL PRICE 80 62 71 55 (audio described) (talk 11:45am) PENSIONER 72 56 64 50 Così 7pm YOUTH UNDER 30 45 35 45 35 (talk 6:15pm) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 West Side Story and Evita Così 7pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Così 7pm Viaggio 7pm Così 12:30pm TUE, WED, THU, FRI & SUN EVENINGS TUE, WED, THU, FRI & SUN EVENINGS (talk 6:15pm) (audio described) at Arts Centre Melbourne (talk 11:45am) PRODUCER P A B C PRODUCER P A B C Rigoletto 7:30pm FULL PRICE 144 126 108 90 54 128 112 96 80 48 27 28 29 30 31 JUNE 1 2 Rigoletto 7:30pm Viaggio 7pm Rigoletto 7:30pm Viaggio 7pm Viaggio 12:30pm PENSIONER / YOUTH UNDER 30 144 126 90 72 54 128 112 80 64 48 (talk 6:15pm) (talk 6:45pm) (audio described) (talk 11:45am) SATURDAY EVENINGS SATURDAY EVENINGS AUGUST 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Chénier 7pm PRODUCER P A B C PRODUCER P A B C

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SEPTEMBER 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 SATURDAY & SUNDAY MATINEES SATURDAY & SUNDAY MATINEES Ghost 7pm Ghost 7pm Ghost 7pm Ghost 2pm PRODUCER P A B C PRODUCER P A B C Sep FULL PRICE 162 144 126 108 90 144 128 112 96 80 NOVEMBER 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Weddings 7:30pm Weddings 7:30pm Weddings 2pm Weddings 2pm PENSIONER / YOUTH UNDER 30 162 144 117 99 90 144 128 104 88 80 Weddings 7:30pm Nov TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY MATINEES TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY MATINEES 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 PRODUCER P A B C PRODUCER P A B C Turandot 7:30pm Turandot 7:30pm Turandot 7:30pm FULL PRICE 144 126 108 90 54 128 112 96 80 48 PENSIONER / YOUTH UNDER 30 144 126 90 72 54 128 112 80 64 48 NOVEMBER 25 26 27 28 29 30 DECEMBER 1 Turandot 7:30pm Faust 7pm Turandot 7:30pm Faust 7pm Turandot 1pm West Side Story on Sydney Harbour SUNDAY–FRIDAY SUNDAY–FRIDAY (talk 6:45pm) (talk 6:15pm) (audio described) (talk 12:15pm) P A B C D P A B C D 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 FULL PRICE 294 250 203 150 89 262 222 181 134 79 Turandot 7:30pm Faust 7pm Turandot 7:30pm Faust 7pm Turandot 7:30pm Faust 12:30pm (audio described) PENSIONER 265 225 183 135 80 236 200 163 121 71 Dec (talk 11:45am) SATURDAY SATURDAY

P A B C D P A B C D FULL PRICE 325 269 221 161 111 289 239 196 143 98 Opening night PENSIONER 293 242 199 145 100 260 215 176 129 88

Talk — join us near Door 2 of the Stalls Foyer of the State Theatre 45 minutes before this performance to hear a member of Opera Australia’s artistic team share their insights into the opera. Producer = Producer Reserve, P = Premium Reserve, A = A Reserve, B = B Reserve, C = C Reserve, D = D Reserve. Audio Described — see details on page 27. For a map of the theatre visit opera.org.au/theatres 25 | 26 Why Subscribe? 2019 Subscription Form

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