Stardust & Divinity

  • Classical Music
  • Utzon Room
  • Run time: 90 minutes, one 10 minute interval Subject to change

Opera’s Myths Reimagined

Shaumet Music returns to the Sydney Opera House with Stardust & Divinity — an opera gala that weaves together myth, music, and the human spirit’s eternal longing for the divine.

Tracing opera’s fascination with gods and mortals, the program journeys from Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice to Dvořák’s Rusalka, Gounod’s Faust, and the mythic grandeur of Wagner, where love defies fate and redemption burns with celestial fire.

In this radiant tapestry of arias and ensembles, ancient legends awaken through the voices of today. Join us in the Utzon Room for an afternoon of luminous sound and mythic wonder — where every note shimmers with both stardust and divinity.

Presented by Shaumet Music

Event details

Program

Baroque and Classical
Henry Purcell: "When I am Laid in Earth" (Dido and Aeneas)
Christoph Willibald Gluck: "Che farò senza Euridice" (Orfeo ed Euridice)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Pa-pa-pa-Papagena" (Die Zauberflöte)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" (Die Zauberflöte)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Stirb, Ungeheu’r, durch unsre Macht!" (Die Zauberflöte)

Romantic (France, Italy & Others)
Charles-François Gounod: "Ah! je ris de me voir si belle" (Faust)
Jacques Offenbach: "Dans les rôles d’amoureux langoureux" (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
Giacomo Puccini: "Signore, ascolta!" (Turandot)
Antonín Dvořák: "Song to the Moon" (Rusalka)
Antonín Dvořák: "Čury mury fuk" (Rusalka)

Romantic (Germany & Wagner)
Carl Maria von Weber: "Einst träumte meiner sel’gen Base" (Der Freischütz)
Richard Wagner: "Dich, teure Halle" (Tannhäuser)
Richard Wagner: "Ich sah das Kind an seiner Mutter Brust" (Parsifal)
Richard Wagner: "Mein Vater!" (Parsifal)

Wagner: The Ring Cycle
Richard Wagner: "Alberichs Fluch" (Das Rheingold)
Richard Wagner: "Weiche, Wotan, weiche!" (Das Rheingold)

Artists

Simon Lobelson
Jill Sullivan
Camilla Wright
Aleta Xiaoxu Shang

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Attending this event

Plan your visit

Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Getting to the venue

The Opera House is a 7-10 minute walk from Circular Quay, and is easily accessible by car, train, ferry, lightrail, bus, bike and on foot.

Location and access

Utzon Room

The Utzon Room is located on the Eastern side of the Opera House, in front of the Joan Sutherland Theatre. Best accessed through the Box Office Foyer or the Covered Concourse. All Sydney Opera House foyers are accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators).

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