Daniel Sumegi is returning to Australia for the OA production of Carmen on Cockatoo Island, running from 25thNovember – 18th December 2022. The internationally acclaimed bass singer performs the role of Escamillo in this hugely ambitious outdoor production. In the thirty-second year of his career, Daniel Sumegi has sung over one hundred operatic roles on […]
Choreographer Shannon Burns is creating the production of Carmen on Cockatoo Island with Opera Australia. Working closely with director Liesel Badorrek, Burns is bringing a rock ‘n’ roll inspiration to this classic opera. Shannon grew up in the Central Queensland town of Gladstone which is where her love of dance began. At the age of 15 she moved […]
Opera Australia is pleased to announce its stunning Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour production of Madama Butterfly, which premiered to great acclaim in 2014, will return to the iconic over- water stage at Mrs Macquaries Point in 2023. Madama Butterfly on Sydney Harbour Visitors to Sydney in March and April next year will have the […]
John Rayment is an acclaimed lighting director, who has created notable productions with Opera Australia. He is currently directing the digital production of Il Trovatore at Sydney Opera House, which will run from 15th – 30th July 2022. Ahead of this exciting interpretation, we talk to John about his illustrious career and what to expect […]
Opera Australia is calling for Australia’s finest vocalists, actors and dancers to audition for its brand new production of The Phantom of the Opera, which will take place on the iconic overwater, outdoor stage at Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour in 2022. Auditions for principal and ensemble roles will be held virtually at first and then in-person in […]
A digitised theme park of art: enjoyed by some, questioned by others.
Sydney, March 12 to April 6
Australian Bruce Petersen is developing an empire of super-experiences. He’s done it with sharks, Alice in Wonderland, Van Gogh, Di Vinci, Monet and is on his way to developing a science-based exhibition.
It’s 5 am, you are eagerly awaiting the first trucks, contractors and crew to start arriving on a major outdoor event site for an arts festival that you have been working on for the past 12 months. The first few hours’ tick by as the buzz of the morning sun starts enveloping the grounds of which activity is thriving, then the emails start again, the phone starts ringing, and you are fast reminded of the another 150 shows and 4 event sites to execute with everyone reporting to you.
On June 4, 1789, in the middle of a Sydney winter and less than 18 months since ‘First Settlement’, the first piece of ‘Western’ theatre was produced in the new colony – The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar. This first theatrical production in the new colony was mounted in honour of King George III’s birthday, performed by […]
On the 21st March 2017, Opera Australia left the curtain open for the audience to see the Opera Australia and Sydney Opera House crew execute one of the fastest and most complex scene changes in the Company’s repertoire. TheatreArtLife caught up with Opera Australia’s Production Manager, James Wheeler to chat about the epic “La Traviata” scene change.
Kerri Ainsworth is a Production Designer and Creative Director with over 25 years’ experience working in the film, television and events industries. The scope of her practice includes designing and project managing the fabrication and installation of large-scale artworks and environments for Special Events and Public Spaces.
Kerri shares her TheatreArtLife with us.
Fashion is not the world I thought I would end up in. As a twenty-year-old-something, I had worked at a hip fashion company in Sydney, Australia and while my personal experience with that company was extremely positive, I never considered myself fashionable and I most certainly was not on trend.
Being torn limb from limb in Australia, Sydney’s live music scene is in a war against broad sweeping measures to protect people from a harmful minority but offering them no place to go.
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