Season Overview
Opera Australia want to welcome you to the world of our 2012 Season. It is a place where animals dance, children fly and love conquers all. Where ideas matter, and music saves the day. A world of glamour and passion, spectacle and fantasy, where everything is big, bold and beautiful.
From Julie Taymor’s inspired production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, to a beloved production of Puccini’s desperately romantic Madama Butterfly. From the ravishing music of Korngold’s Die tote Stadt to a fabulous new production of South Pacific, we know that you will make discoveries that you will treasure and carry with you forever.
Visit Opera Australia for more information on our 2012 Season. Or, if you need help deciding what to see in 2012, why not try our Opera Selector, which will give you suggestions, and a taste of what’s to come, based on your answers to a few quick questions.
Company Overview
Opera Australia is Australia's national opera company. Resident at the Sydney Opera House, Sydney and The Arts Centre, Melbourne, it performs in capital cities and regional centres, inspiring people across the country with live opera. As Australia's busiest performing arts organisation, Opera Australia gives upwards of 600 performances a year, including subscription seasons in Sydney and Melbourne and extensive regional touring and schools performances by Oz Opera, its touring arm.
The company casts its productions from an ensemble of Australian artists, with regular appearances by international guest artists. Opera Australia also manages the Sydney-based Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra (AOBO), which plays for all Opera Australia and Australian Ballet performances in Sydney. When in Melbourne, Opera Australia performs with the independently managed Orchestra Victoria.
Opera Australia’s permanent staff of around 300 people, consists of 80 singers and music staff (including a full-time chorus of 48), 70 musicians, and a further 150 people in the areas of scenic construction and painting, lighting, design, direction, wardrobe, wig-making, management, marketing and administration.
Beyond performing, Opera Australia is a national resource for opera as an artform in Australia. It maintains a repertoire of over 80 productions (including sets, props and costumes) and produces new productions every year, manufactured on site at the Opera Centre in Sydney. These productions are seen in Opera Australia's subscription seasons and also hired to Australia's state opera companies and, increasingly, other opera companies worldwide.
Opera Australia also works closely with national broadcaster, the ABC, giving live and recorded national broadcasts on radio and TV as well as producing numerous recordings to build one of the world's largest collection of operas on DVD from a single company.
Chief Executive: Adrian Collette AM
Assistant Music Director: Tony Legge
Artistic Director: Lyndon Terracini (effective October 2009)
Telephone: +61 2 9699 1099
Fax: +61 2 9699 3184
Email:enquiries@opera-australia.org.au
www.opera-australia.org.au