Just so  you know, I've re-started the Opera Australia Futures page. I know, 2009 hasn't even finished — let alone 2010 — but since rumours are already starting to float my way regarding OA's 2011 season, it seemed the right time to...

As you may already have heard, Opera Australia announced this afternoon that its new production of Le nozze di Figaro, by débuting director Benedict Andrews, has been postponed until 2012 for financial reasons. Instead we'll see the same cast(s) in a...

The wonderful thing about Pinchgut Opera is that mediocrity just isn't an option. The success of a company like Opera Australia rises and falls on variables — singers, directors, conductors and so on, who change with every show. With Pinchgut it's...

Typical. I whinge about not having any opera to blog about, then when I get some, I don't blog about it. I went to opening night of Pinchgut's L'Ormindo on Wednesday. I have no excuse for my failure to write anything about it. And I will post...

Last night I was idly browsing the Opera Australia website (as I do) and discovered, much to my alarm, that Cheryl Barker's name had disappeared from both the cast list and the publicity blurb for the upcoming Sydney season of Tosca. I feared the...