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The ground is shifting in the opera world – across Australia as elswhere – but the national review and a touch of showbiz are re-booting the sector beyond Melbourne and Sydney, says Lindy Hume
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The OAE and a cast in impressive voice conveyed the drama of the Roman arena in a concert outing of Donizetti’s forgotten grand opera, writes Erica Jeal
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Review The Cunning Peasant review – Dvořák’s ‘flimsy’ opera transplanted to Hardy’s Wessex
3 / 5 starsStephen Medcalf’s Far from the Madding Crowd take on Dvořák’s folk comedy doesn’t always work, but fine conducting and singing save the day, writes Tim Ashley
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The modern police state backdrop sits oddly in Martin Kušej’s new production, provoking mostly puzzlement. And what is the shark about? asks Andrew Clements
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Without staging, it wasn’t easy keeping track of the lovers in Prokofiev’s comic opera, but Gergiev’s cast and orchestra filled in at least some of the gaps, writes Rian Evans
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Previously unpublished private papers of Italian tenor chart the singer’s rise to fame and troubled personal life
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