Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia. Based in Sydney, New South Wales, its performance season at the Sydney Opera House accompanied...
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The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, it is...
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frequently attractive, seductive, glamorous and wealthy. Soap operas from the United Kingdom and Australia tend to focus on more everyday characters and situations...
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The Opera Australia Orchestra (based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is a full-time salaried orchestra, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Opera Australia...
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David Hobson (tenor) (category Use Australian English from July 2011)
David Hobson (born 18 November 1960) is an Australian opera tenor and composer. Born in Ballarat, Australia, Hobson sang with church and school choirs...
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implementation" (PDF). Australia Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 March 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2010. "Opera Australia". Australia Council. Archived...
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The Opera Awards is an singing competition for professional Australian opera singers. It was established in 1986 with the purpose of assisting and developing...
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following is a list of soap operas from Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States that have aired in Australia over the years, in daytime...
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The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed...
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Opera is a form of Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation...
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Anthony Warlow (category 20th-century Australian male opera singers)
made his debut with the Australian Opera in 1980. Warlow has performed on Broadway, the West End, Carnegie Hall and across Australia with all of the symphony...
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Danielle de Niese (category Australian operatic sopranos)
Opera, England. De Niese was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, after her parents, Chris and Beverly, had migrated from Sri Lanka to Australia as...
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West Australian Opera (WAO) is the principal opera company of Western Australia and is a resident company at His Majesty's Theatre, Perth. The company...
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The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, and a libretto by Lloyd Webber...
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Mitchell Butel (category Australian male musical theatre actors)
February 1970) is an Australian actor, singer, director and writer. He is best known for his work in theatre, including musical and opera productions. He was...
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Bunthorne's Bride, is a comic opera in two acts with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera is a satire on the aesthetic movement...
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Ivanhoe is a romantic opera in three acts based on the 1819 novel by Sir Walter Scott, with music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Julian Sturgis...
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Jim Sharman (category Australian film directors)
Britten's Death in Venice for Opera Australia. In 2009, he directed a new production of Mozart's Così fan tutte for Opera Australia, a collaboration with the...
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Vanessa Scammell (category Australian classical pianists)
Vanessa Scammell is an Australian pianist and conductor in the field of ballet, musical theatre, concert, and opera. After growing up in Gippsland, Victoria...
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production by Opera Australia with Cheryl Barker in the title role and Richard Hickox conducting won the Helpmann Award for Best Opera. "Song to the Moon"...
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Greta Bradman (category 21st-century Australian women opera singers)
performance in a fully staged opera as Mimì in Gale Edwards' production of La bohème for Opera Australia in the Sydney Opera House. Bradman – with vocalist...
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State Opera South Australia (SOSA) is a professional opera company in Adelaide, South Australia, established in 1976. State Opera South Australia was established...
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Lohengrin (pronounced [ˈloːənˌɡʁiːn] in German), WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in...
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John Marsden (writer) (category Use Australian English from January 2013)
2014, Lyndon Terracini announced that Opera Australia had co-commissioned Kate Miller-Heidke to write an opera based on Marsden's The Rabbits. The work...
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Kate Miller-Heidke (category 21st-century Australian women opera singers)
the role of Mabel in Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance with Opera Australia in late 2005. Instead she turned from classical to pop music when "Space...
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State Opera (VSO), based in Melbourne, Australia, was founded in Melbourne in 1962. The company, founded by Leonard Spira, was a move into grand opera by...
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February 2009. Lee was also to perform as The King of Siam in the 2014 Opera Australia production of The King and I in Melbourne opposite Lisa McCune, but...
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Gravity and Other Myths Opera Australia Opera Queensland State Opera of South Australia Victorian Opera West Australian Opera Adelaide Festival of Arts...
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Ali McGregor (category Use Australian English from October 2016)
McGregor is an Australian soprano opera singer, actress and cabaret performer. She has performed in operas in the United Kingdom, in Australia and in New...
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with Opera Australia (Adriana Lecouvreur), the Spoleto Festival (Falstaff), Chicago Lyric Opera (Simon Boccanegra), Cincinnati Opera, Atlanta Opera, Dayton...
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