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Performer: Jessica O'Donoghue

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SydneyBach’s Christmas Oratorio

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Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV248
Australian Chamber Orchestra; Richard Tognetti; Amy Moore; Jessica O'Donoghue

MelbourneBach’s Christmas Oratorio

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Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV248
Australian Chamber Orchestra; Richard Tognetti; Amy Moore; Jessica O'Donoghue
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Uncompromising theatre: Gilgamesh world premiere

Jeremy Kleeman (Gilgamesh) © Daniel Boud
A powerful work by brave innovators is a legacy for the departing Opera Australia Artistic Director. 
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Blinding ice: Finsterer's frozen Antarctica at the Sydney Festival

Antarctica © Wendell Teodoro
Gorgeous music by Mary Finsterer and an evocative setting by Elizabeth Gadsby transport you to the ends of the earth.
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The Repairing of Lucretia

The problematic nature of Britten's Rape of Lucretia is well-known: Sydney Chamber Opera's production attempts to navigate it via gender inversion. 
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Biographica: a mazy musical melange

Mary Finsterer has managed a musical melange that crosses effortlessly and delightfully from the Renaissance to today. If only Tom Wright's book and libretto had been a match, this would have been a work worth taking to the world.
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Mayakovsky: an object of operatic fascination

A new opera by Alison Croggon and Michael Smetanin on the Soviet poet Mayakovsky is an intense experience in the production by Sydney Chamber Opera under Jack Symonds.
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