May 2024
Opera Australia bets on musicals, property development as losses widen
Australia’s largest performing arts company will produce more musicals, and play more cannily with its property, as it tries to turn losses around.
May 2023
‘40pc inflation’: Opera Australia’s low note as staging costs soar
The country’s largest performing arts company is passing around the hat, and relying on musical theatre productions, as it faces savage cost increases.
October 2022
‘Mentally moved on’: Lyndon Terracini leaves Opera Australia early
The artistic director has called time on a 13-year tenure that reversed the fortunes of Australia’s largest performing arts company.
August 2022
Opera’s king, and The Ring, star in OA’s 2023 season
Opera Australia’s outgoing artistic director Lyndon Terracini has programmed a swansong season with blockbuster potential.
December 2021
Opera Australia CEO’s first job is to save the show
As Fiona Allan settles into the country’s largest performing arts company, she’s rolling up her sleeves to go into battle for the COVID-19 ravaged Australian arts industry.
September 2021
Carmen comes to Cockatoo Island
Opera Australia has won approval to stage its first production at the former industrial site on Sydney Harbour, which guests will be able to watch from their boats.
March 2021
Rod Sims immortalised in opera
Opera Australia board member Alison Pert went all out for her husband’s birthday.
March 2020
Exit stage left: Opera Australia leads arts shutdown
The country's largest performing arts company will pay staff at least 50 per cent of wages until May 30.
February 2020
In 2020, all the world's a concert hall
It's a headline year for music tourism, not least because it marks the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.
October 2019
'If it's a good idea, you'll get the money'
Artistic director Lyndon Terracini has kept Opera Australia on song financially but not everyone is a fan.