Indulge your love of opera in Australia, where the grand and sublime are already part of the landscape. Catch a lavish, full-scale performance at the iconic Sydney Opera House or Melbourne’s Arts Centre. Or discover opera in dedicated theatres in Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane. For a more informal experience, pack a family picnic for the huge, free outdoor productions staged each year in many Australian cities. Enjoy opera amongst the vineyards of the Hunter Valley near Sydney or the Yarra Valley near Melbourne. Or experience opera in Queensland’s outback, where the sweeping horizons are the perfect backdrop for soaring voices.
For a truly iconic Australian opera experience, you can’t go past a production at the Sydney Opera House, the city’s most visited and best-loved attraction. Australian soprano Dame Joan Sutherland was one of the operatic legends to have performed beneath these famous white sails. Opera Australia is based here during its summer season, from January to March, and winter, from June to September.
The performances cover five centuries of gilded musical spectacle, across traditions in Italian, German, French and English. Connect to Mozart’s comic operas such as The Marriage of Figaro or Così fan tutte. Or lose yourself in Puccini’s heartbreakingly beautiful arias in works such as La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. Lift your spirits with Gilbert and Sullivan’s wisecracking Pirates of Penzance. Or seek out a contemporary reimagining of a classic story, like Baz Luhrmann’s production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Opera Australia takes its sumptuous sets and grand storylines to Melbourne Arts Centre in Southbank in spring and autumn. If you’re visiting the city between April and June or October and December, make sure you include an evening at the opera on your itinerary. Opera Australia also takes professional productions to other parts of the country on its regional roadshow. Outside of New South Wales and Victoria, there are many accomplished state opera companies. See their works in grand old theatres such as Hobart’s Theatre Royal, the Lyric Theatre in Brisbane, Adelaide’s Opera Studio or His Majesty’s Theatre in Perth.
Opera often goes outdoors in Australia, which has plenty of beautiful natural backdrops. Join the thousands of Sydneysiders who swarm into the grassy Domain for the huge, free opera concert each January. Perth and Melbourne also host summertime operas beneath the stars. In February, you can escape to unspoilt Norfolk Island for the week-long Opera in Paradise, set against the island’s haunting convict ruins. Internationally acclaimed tenors sing in the vine-lined hills of the Hunter and Yarra Valleys at Opera in the Vineyards in October. The same month, Queensland hosts Opera in the Outback, a black tie event in the awesome natural amphitheatre of the Undara Lava Tubes.
Discover opera and Australia together, and embrace the epic, extravagant and unforgettable.
For a truly iconic Australian opera experience, you can’t go past a production at the Sydney Opera House, the city’s most visited and best-loved attraction. Australian soprano Dame Joan Sutherland was one of the operatic legends to have performed beneath these famous white sails. Opera Australia is based here during its summer season, from January to March, and winter, from June to September.
The performances cover five centuries of gilded musical spectacle, across traditions in Italian, German, French and English. Connect to Mozart’s comic operas such as The Marriage of Figaro or Così fan tutte. Or lose yourself in Puccini’s heartbreakingly beautiful arias in works such as La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. Lift your spirits with Gilbert and Sullivan’s wisecracking Pirates of Penzance. Or seek out a contemporary reimagining of a classic story, like Baz Luhrmann’s production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Opera Australia takes its sumptuous sets and grand storylines to Melbourne Arts Centre in Southbank in spring and autumn. If you’re visiting the city between April and June or October and December, make sure you include an evening at the opera on your itinerary. Opera Australia also takes professional productions to other parts of the country on its regional roadshow. Outside of New South Wales and Victoria, there are many accomplished state opera companies. See their works in grand old theatres such as Hobart’s Theatre Royal, the Lyric Theatre in Brisbane, Adelaide’s Opera Studio or His Majesty’s Theatre in Perth.
Opera often goes outdoors in Australia, which has plenty of beautiful natural backdrops. Join the thousands of Sydneysiders who swarm into the grassy Domain for the huge, free opera concert each January. Perth and Melbourne also host summertime operas beneath the stars. In February, you can escape to unspoilt Norfolk Island for the week-long Opera in Paradise, set against the island’s haunting convict ruins. Internationally acclaimed tenors sing in the vine-lined hills of the Hunter and Yarra Valleys at Opera in the Vineyards in October. The same month, Queensland hosts Opera in the Outback, a black tie event in the awesome natural amphitheatre of the Undara Lava Tubes.
Discover opera and Australia together, and embrace the epic, extravagant and unforgettable.
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