Performer: Nicholas Jones

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SydneyCoffee and a Dead Canary

City Recital Hall, Sep 12 mat, eve, 13

Bach, Telemann

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

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Opera Australia’s Eugene Onegin shines musically

Andrei Bondarenko (Onegin) and Lauren Fagan (Tatyana) © Keith Saunders

Sandra Bowdler, 17 Mar

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

****1

Zoltán Szabó, 13 Mar

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

Samuel Dundas (Horatio), Jud Arthur (Gravedigger) and Allan Clayton (Hamlet) © Keith Saunders

Jeremy Eccles, 20 Jul

80% less of Shakespeare's text adds up to more intensity in Brett Dean's Hamlet as Neil Armfield's staging is mounted by Opera Australia.

****1

The Exterminating Angel at the Opéra de Paris © Agathe Poupeney / Opéra national de Paris

Erwan Gentric, 29 Feb

The French premiere of the British composer's opera will be the undisputed high point of the Grande Boutique's season: a perfect confluence of music, staging and cast.

*****

Simon O'Neill (Florestan) © Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Jeremy Eccles, 24 Nov

Simone Young is made of stern stuff. With 30 hours to go before the concert performance, her Leonore falls ill. Can the show go on?

****1

Richard Meale’s Voss revived in all its brilliance in Adelaide

Brian Angus, 07 May

Sometimes referred to as “the great Australian opera” ,Voss has had few Australian airings since its 1986 premiere. This new production shows why it is held in such high regard.

****1

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