Puccini’s politically-charged thriller Tosca is coming to QPAC this June!
First performed in 1900, Nolan said Tosca’s importance was undiminished 120 years on.
“Tosca is often described as the greatest opera of them all, owing in large part to Puccini’s exquisite score. Yet, as a story, Tosca still has so much insight and relevance for contemporary audiences.
The questions it asks and the social, political and economic scenarios it examines keep it alive to the here and now,” Nolan said.
“In a world where political tyranny and intolerance is ...
Bran Nue Dae 30th Anniversary Tour Announcement!
Recognised as the world’s first Aboriginal stage musical when it premiered to great acclaim in 1990, Bran Nue Dae originally toured over a three-year period, and remains one of the most commercially successful pieces of original Australian musical theatre.
Written by the late Jimmy Chi in collaboration with the band Kuckles, Bran Nue Dae has been described as “a beacon of light” in Aboriginal and Australian cultural history. With its sense of humanity, irreverence and excitement, ...
Opera Queensland’s 2019 season opens with the Queensland premiere of A Flowering Tree
Inspired by Mozart’s The Magic Flute, A Flowering Tree explores themes of magic, metamorphosis and the healing power of deep and selfless love; a majestic retelling of a traditional southern Indian folk tale, sung in English and Spanish.
The opera recounts the story of Kumudha, a beautiful, young peasant woman with the magical ability to transform herself into a tree covered in exquisite flowers.
A Prince sees Kamudha’s transformation and infatuated by her beauty and magic ...
Opera Queensland invite one & all to “Sing Sing Sing”
Led by popular Queensland baritone and teacher extraordinaire Jason Barry-Smith, SING SING SING is an opportunity for singers to join in hearty renditions of familiar tunes and toast their temporary stardom with a complimentary bevvy.
All attendees need to bring along is a sense of fun and a willingness to let rip as they sing along to some of the great moments of opera.
For those with more musical experience, optional sheet music and added harmony parts are available. Dress code will ...
Opera Queensland to open the gates of hell with trilling new production of Don Giovanni!
Although penned more than 200 years ago, Hume said Don Giovanni strikes a brutally relevant chord in 2018 with sexual misconduct at the forefront of the world’s collective consciousness.
“Don Giovanni ranks alongside Carmen as one of opera’s most iconic, sexually-charged characters, and there's an expectation from audiences to see this sensuality revealed in all its intensity,” Ms Hume said.
“But for me it is also about an addictive, abusive, entitled personality. You cannot ...
Snow White at La Boîte
At once enticing and confronting, this retelling will upend fairy-tale expectations, disturbingly blurring the boundaries of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, truth and lies, trust and betrayal, killer and prey.
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Four musicians and four extraordinary singer/actors from styles spanning opera to rock join forces to create a musical and theatrical world that is sensual, immersive and evocative.
Audiences will be up close and in-the-round with the sweat and muscle; blood and ...
Banquet of Secrets – A new musical by Paul Grabowsky and Steve Vizard
In Banquet of Secrets, four old friends gather at their favourite restaurant for their annual dinner. During the course of their elaborate meal, one of them asks “Is it possible friends as old as we, might have secrets hidden from each other, from the world?”.
They each agree to share their deepest secret over the course of the meal. What transpires is a funny and bittersweet examination of love, friendship, loss, betrayal, joy and the well-established link between good food and ...
Babushka: Doll at JWCOCA
Babushka beckons you into their musical dreamhouse for a very grown-up play-date with the first childhood BFF, the doll. Swinging like a ragdoll between cute and creepy, the Babushka gals will nurse dolls, break dolls and become dolls in their original arrangements of everything from Regurgitator to Offenbach.
Prepare to be seduced, comforted and tickled all to a darkly comedic musical playlist featuring everything from opera, 80s pop, nursery rhymes and rock’n’roll. Stroll down the ...
