Opera

Culture in the Colonies

There’s a great scheme going on with some of our independent movie theatres over the last couple of years where they do direct live broadcasts of operas from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. I’ve been going for the last 18 months and the experience is fantastic. Not only do you get a fabulous high [...]

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Madam Butterfly

Furthering our Opera Education, Allan and I returned to the Plenty Ranges Theatre on Saturday to take in another Melbourne Opera production. This time front row seats for Madam Butterfly by Puccini. In a word…Sensational! Basically the story line for this opera is that of Cio-Cio-San (Butterfly), a 15 year old Japanese geisha who marries [...]

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Turandot…or, “Mastermind: Chinese style”

Dear gentle and cultured reader, you may recall a post I wrote a few months ago called ‘No longer an Opera Virgin’ where I went to my first Opera performance. This was Don Giovanni and was sung in English rather than Italian. And although I really enjoyed it I felt that I should reserve judgement [...]

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No longer an Opera Virgin

Had my first taste of Opera at the weekend. The Melbourne Opera Co did a regional performance at the Plenty Ranges Theatre and my sister Elaine passed the flyer on to me. I enjoy the ballet and am a subscriber to the Australian Ballet Co programme, and I have often wondered how I would feel [...]

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