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BuxtonAmadigi di Gaula

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Händel: Amadigi di Gaula
Erin Helyard; Olivia Fuchs; Buxton Festival Opera; Eleanor Bull; Ben Pickersgill; The English Concert

SydneyCoffee and a Dead Canary

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Bach, Telemann
Orchestra of the Antipodes; Erin Helyard; Warwick Doddrell; Veronique Bennett; Ariana Ricci; Nicholas Jones

SydneySemele

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Händel: Semele
Erin Helyard; Neil Armfield; Pinchgut Opera; Alexander Berlage; Orchestra of the Antipodes; Cantillation; Eugene Lynch

WellingtonMessiah

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Händel: Messias
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Erin Helyard; The Tudor Consort
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Superb musical performances in Pinchgut’s Scarlatti rarity in Sydney

Ashlyn Tymms (Caino) and Ewan Herdman © Anna Kučera
As usual, Pinchgut lavishes musical excellence on an obscure Baroque work... but why stage an oratorio? 
****1
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Netia Jones directs Pinchgut Opera in a well-oiled Fairy Queen

The Fairy Queen © Cassandra Hannagan
A rare 17th-century English Baroque spectacular, designed to delight the Restoration crowd, is given a contemporary twist in Sydney. 
****1
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Stunning acrobatics, a forlorn farewell: Dido and Aeneas in Sydney

Anna Dowsley (Dido) © Keith Saunders
Yaron Lifschitz mesmerises from the opening tableaux’s row of candles in his Purcell staging for Opera Australia, featuring Circa, a Brisbane-based circus company. 
****1
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Julius Caesar – or some of it – from Pinchgut Opera

Samantha Clarke (Cleopatra) and Tim Mead (Giulio Cesare) © Brett Boardman
Handel's Giulio Cesare is heavily abridged in Sydney, but generally well-performed musically, albeit with a rather awkward staging by Neil Armfield. 
***11
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Faithful to Handel: Pinchgut Opera performs Theodora

Samantha Clarke (Theodora) © Keith Saunders
Pinchgut Opera presents magnificent music and a timeless ethical debate on faith versus sectarian difference. 
****1
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A streamlined, dramatic Rinaldo from Pinchgut

Jake Arditti (Rinaldo) and Alexandra Oomens (Almirena) © Cassandra Hannagan
Although abbreviated, Pinchgut Opera's production of Handel's Rinaldo makes a powerful dramatic impact and exemplifies high musical values, with excellent orchestral playing and consistently fine singing.
****1
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SydneyWomen of the Pièta

Dorée Dixon and Carla Blackwood © Cassandra Hannigan
Vivaldi, Galuppi
Orchestra of the Antipodes; Erin Helyard; Miriam Allan; Carla Blackwood; Dorée Dixon; Cantillation