Opera Australia's Sydney Summer Season 2017

Opera Australia's 2017 season is not to be missed, dazzling with a line-up of award winning premieres, Australian firsts and traditional favourites.

LA BOHÈME (Puccini)
The way that first love grabs hold of your insides and floods you with something you've never felt before. The fire that burns you the first time jealousy flares. The growing up you do in the instant you realise love can't last forever. Puccini takes these achingly human feelings and sets them to music - music that soars with the ecstasy of love, crackles with the pain of jealousy and cries with the agony of loss.

This glittering production, set in the bohemian streets of 1930s Berlin, is a perfect showcase for one of the world's most sought after sopranos Mariangela Sicilia and Australia's own Greta Bradman, who will share the role of Mimì in their Opera Australia debuts.

Joan Sutherland Theatre. Sydney Opera House

December 31 - March 24 2017

Bookings
Adult tickets from $72 (fees may apply)
Group and concession prices available for most performances.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA / PAGLIACCI (Mascagni/Leoncavallo)

Prepare for an extra dose of desperation and drama in this classic double bill of tragedies with stories that may strike all too close to home. These two short operas by different composers but traditionally performed together, explore the full spectrum of emotion: passionate love, consuming lust, bitter suffering and boundless rage.

Opera Australia is bringing this highly acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning co-production with the Royal Opera House by celebrated director Damiano Michieletto to Australia for the first time. A definite highlight of the Summer Season and not to be missed.

Joan Sutherland Theatre. Sydney Opera House

January 12 - February 4 2017

Bookings
Adult tickets from $72 (fees may apply)
Group and concession prices available for most performances.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
KING ROGER (Szymanowski)
A new, highly acclaimed production of Karol Szymanowski's King Roger will premiere at the Sydney Opera House this summer, the first time this opera has ever been staged in Australia.

This is a rare opportunity to experience not only an extraordinary piece of work, but also the first Polish opera to be performed by Opera Australia.

Described as a "major artistic triumph" when it premiered at Covent Garden in 2015, this production by celebrated director Kasper Holten represents a truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear a 20th-century masterpiece.

Joan Sutherland Theatre. Sydney Opera House

January 20 - February 15 2017

Bookings
Adult tickets from $72 (fees may apply)
Group and concession prices available for most performances.

LA TRAVIATA (Verdi)
Violetta wears velvet and lace and drinks the very best champagne from crystal glasses. Her parties are legendary, her company sought after.

This production by Elijah Moshinsky is one of Opera Australia's most successful, featuring lush party scenes in Paris and beautiful autumn afternoons in the countryside. Lavish, crowded sets and exquisite costumes combined with Verdi's famous, hummable tunes offer the perfect way to experience opera for the first time, or the chance to revisit a favourite with an exciting new cast.

Joan Sutherland Theatre. Sydney Opera House

February 3 - April 1 2017

Bookings
Adult tickets from $65 (fees may apply)
Group and concession prices available for most performances.

TOSCA (Puccini)

John Bell's hugely popular, critically acclaimed 20th century retelling of Puccini's Tosca returns to the Sydney Opera House stage this summer.

In this production the action takes place in Nazi-occupied Rome, in an effort to recapture the shock Puccini's original audience might have felt as the composer depicted a war on stage.

Tosca is renowned for having some of the most powerful music in opera, which calls for a stellar cast and this production does not disappoint with three outstanding singers including Spanish soprano Ainhoa Arteta, Romanian tenor Teodor Ilincai and Italian Baritone Lucio Gallo leading an all-star Australian cast.

Joan Sutherland Theatre. Sydney Opera House

February 17 - March 31 2017

Bookings
Adult tickets from $72 (fees may apply)
Group and concession prices available for most performances.

Opera Australia Box Office
(02) 9318 8200
www.opera.org.au

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