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Marianela Núñez was in her element as the huntress in Ashton's charming ballet. 

Was she – or wasn’t she – the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Russia's last tsar who had survived the massacre of her family in 1917? Natalia Osipova made you believe she was. 

From the opening bars of the Overture of Opera Australia’s production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro it was clear that this was going to be a production with a difference. As the orchestra began, the curtain raised to reveal a room, painted in brilliant white, with clothes rails at either end containing maids’ costumes.

Opera Australia pulled out all the stops for their latest production of Puccini’s Turandot: an excellent cast, fabulous choreography, amazing costumes and a great sense of drama all combined to make it a wonderful production at Sydney Opera House. The Opera Theatre is comparatively small by modern standards and is a very intimate venue in which to see an opera.

Si Le Songe d’une Nuit d’Eté a souvent été dansé à l’Opéra de Paris, la version chorégraphiée par George Balanchine en 1962, au répertoire de nombreuses compagnies, n’avait encore jamais été présentée au public parisien. 

Neumeiers Sommernachtstraum begeistert das Salzburger Festspielpublikum.