by vinno.christmantara@gmail.com | Dec 22, 2025 | Opera News
Our new Richard Divall Program members have had a very busy start to the program. Their journey began with a lovely Friends of Melbourne welcome event at the Savage Club. Our ‘four tenors’ (also a feature of the welcome concert) had a wonderful masterclass with the...
by vinno.christmantara@gmail.com | Sep 8, 2025 | Opera News
Sat 20 Sep, 1.30–2pm Sat 20 Sep, 2.30–3pm Discover a story of fame, friendship, and forbidden love through the 18th-century portrait of celebrated Italian singer Farinelli hosted by Melbourne Opera Head of Music, Raymond Lawrence. Then watch the drama soar as...
by jeremyv | Jul 25, 2023 | Opera News
THE RICHARD DIVALL PROGRAMME 2023-2024 The Richard Divall Programme for emerging and developing artists has selected its artists for the next twelve months. It was a very challenging process to choose from the large field of extremely talented candidates and many...
by 2vnetadmin | May 19, 2023 | Reviews
Greetings from Valhalla (aka Bendigo) where 6 leading singers from Patrick Togher Artists’ Management are enjoying brilliant success in Melbourne Opera’s Ring Cycle. Antoinette Halloran – Brünnhilde “An actor of exceptional emotional intelligence…...
by 2vnetadmin | Apr 4, 2023 | Reviews
Siegfried has been described as the Scherzo of the Ring cycle. While it certainly has its amusing moments, it also lays the groundwork for the culminating end of the world. This is heralded by Wotan’s recognition of the inevitable and Siegfried’s destruction of his...
by 2vnetadmin | Apr 3, 2023 | Reviews
One hundred and seventy years after thousands of desperadoes and gold-cravers trekked to a place called Sandhurst, Wagnerites set off to Bendigo on Friday afternoon (in rather more orderly fashion it must be said, along the potholed Calder Freeway) for Melbourne...
by 2vnetadmin | Apr 3, 2023 | Reviews
“This first night of a complete production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the first of three cycles, took place in the Ulumbarra Theatre created out of a 19th-century gaol, boasting a large stage by Australian standards, complete with fly tower and all the...
by 2vnetadmin | Apr 3, 2023 | Reviews
Melbourne Opera’s Ring cycle hits its stride with an energising second instalment of Wagner’s tetralogy now playing at the Ulumbarra Theatre in Bendigo, Victoria. “As in Rheingold, conductor Anthony Negus drew wonders from the Melbourne Opera Orchestra which he...
by 2vnetadmin | Mar 16, 2023 | Opera News
A full program of festival events across all three Ring Cycles, including recitals, talks, gala dinners on stage at the Ulumbarra Theatre, and even an intimate concert 60 metres underground in a mine, is now available. Wagner enthusiasts will have the opportunity to...
by 2vnetadmin | Mar 31, 2022 | Opera News
The Royal Academy of Music is pleased to announce the musicians and performers who will be conferred honours at its 2022 graduation ceremony. This is a particularly important year, as it marks the conservatoire’s bicentenary. Honorands include a wide range of people...
