Is Opera Australia’s Candide really the best of all possible worlds?

Annie Aitken (Cunegonde)

The cast of Candide

Cathy Di-Zhang (Paquette), Euan Fistrovic Doidge (Maximillian) and Opera Australia Chorus

Eddie Perfect (Pangloss)

Von Zoltán Szabó, 24 Februar 2025

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“the aesthetic bar has not been set very high”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Sydney Opera House: Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney, am 20 Februar 2025

Bernstein, Candide

Opera Australia

Brett Weymark, Musikalische Leitung

Dean Bryant, Regie

Dann Barber, Bühnenbild, Kostüme

Matt Scott, Licht

Opera Australia Orchestra

Opera Australia Chorus

Lyndon Watts, Candide

Annie Aitken, Kunigunde

Eddie Perfect, Doctor Pangloss

Dominica Matthews, Die alte Frau

Euan Fistrovic Doidge, Maximilian

Cathy-Di Zhang, Paquette

John Longmuir, Gouverneur, Vanderdendur

Andrew Moran, Martin

Eddie Muliaumaseali'i, Cacambo

Terracinis Antwort für die Kritiker

Jeremy Eccles, 21st January

Hätte Großbritannien Spaß an The Rabbits? Denn so allegorisiert die neue, australische Familienoper die Briten der Kolonialzeit, die in diese herrenlose Welt Downunder kamen und die Existenz der australischen Ureinwohner leugnete - die in dieser Oper in Gestalt von Beuteltieren auftreten.

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Himmlische Latonia Moore in Aida

David Larkin, 27th March

Kamele, Feuerwerk und ein riesiger Kopf von Nefertiti: der Sydney Harbour-Inszenierung von Aida fehlt es nicht an Spektakel. Latonia Moore sticht in der Titelrolle heraus, mit guter Unterstützung von Miliaja Nikolic als Amneris und Michael Honeyman als Amonasro.

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Opera Australia’s Eugene Onegin shines musically

Sandra Bowdler, 17th March

Eugene Onegin returns to the Sydney Opera house in Kasper Holten’s slightly awkward production but the singing and orchestral playing are exemplary.

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Humperdinck hobbled in Opera Australia revival

Jeremy Eccles, 27th January

Elijah Moshinsky’s 33-year-old production of Hansel and Gretel hasn’t aged well.

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A psychological Turandot in Ann Yee's Opera Australia staging

Sandra Bowdler, 15th January

Opera Australia's new Turandot succeeds with musical, dramatic and visual values with a mix of local and imported talent.

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Siobhan Stagg leads a strong Marriage of Figaro revival in Sydney

Sandra Bowdler, 31st July

Siobhan Stagg is an outstanding Susanna in a strongly cast and well produced Marriage of Figaro at the Sydney Opera House

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Zoltán Szabó

Zoltán Szabó is a cellist and musicologist. Having migrated from his native Hungary to Australia in 1985, he worked with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Sydney until 1991, when he became Principal Cello with Opera Australia. In 2017, he was awarded with a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD). Currently, he is teaching music history and musicology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.