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New season of opera revealed!

New season of opera revealed!

Opera Australia (OA) has announced its 2019 Melbourne program, promising a truly spectacular season with five new productions, including one Australian premiere, and featuring some of the world’s finest performers.

“It’s a truly incredible season,” OA artistic director Lyndon Terracini said. “It will be one of the most outstanding seasons we have presented in recent years and we’re proud to be offering an array of new productions, particularly the Australian premiere of Rossini’s II Viaggio a Reims.

Never staged in Australia before, a thrilling cast will perform Rossini’s jubilant score in Damiano Michieletto’s playful, large-scale production of II Viaggo Reims that brings some of the world’s most recognisable artworks to life.

Alongside the Australian premiere, OA will present the Melbourne premiere of four productions this season. After receiving rave reviews, acclaimed director Sir David McVicar’s productions of Cosi fan tutte and Faust will be performed in Melbourne for the first time.

Also making its Melbourne debut is Robert Andrew Greene and Dean Bryant’s popular operetta Two Weddings, One Bride and OA will return to the Malthouse Theatre in 2019 to present Aribert Reimann’s chilling Ghost Sinata.

As well as the new productions, two opera favourites will return – Elihaj Moshinsky’s iconic interpretation of Rigoletto and Graeme Murphy’s much-loved production Turandot.

Mr Terracini said the 2019 season would see Melbourne play host to some of the finest opera singers in the world.

“We have the best singers performing some of the world’s greatest music, in productions by world-renowned directors. There is definitely something for everybody,” he said.

“The 2019 season exemplifies why Opera Australia is considered one of the world’s leading opera companies.”

At the announcement of the 2019 season on August 16, OA and Arts Centre Melbourne also announced that 30 of Dame Joan Sutherland’s most iconic costumes would be donated to the Australian Performing Arts Collection.

Curated over a number of years, OA’s Dame Joan Sutherland collection spans three decades and comprises dresses, wigs, headpieces and accessories all worn over the course of her celebrated career.

The Australian Performing Arts Collection is the nation’s largest collection of performing arts memorabilia and ephemera, charting the stories of the Australian stage.

“These costumes are a treasured piece of Australian history and we are glad that ACM will ensure their continued preservation and share them with the public,” OA CEO Rory Jeffes said.

The first costumes will be on display as early as November this year with the remaining costumes expected to travel down to Melbourne in the coming months.

For more information and to find out more about the 2019 season visit opera.org.au

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