The art is accessible, the attendees cut across the social spectrum and the architecture beguiles. By Damien Cave The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. This week’s ...

Were operas to be identified like episodes of Friends, Turandot would be “the one with Nessun Dorma”. This beloved tenor aria has achieved a life of its own away from its parent opera. Consequently, ...

Sydney on New Year’s Eve is the ultimate night of nights and Opera Australia is presenting two performances at the Sydney Opera House that promise soaring music, glamorous costumes and a touch of ...

Opera Australia’s 2025 winter season will open in this July with the highly anticipated global premiere of Australian Director Anne-Louise Sarks’ production of Carmen at the Sydney Opera House, in ...

Jewish Australians will reclaim the Sydney Opera House for the country’s National Day of Mourning on Thursday, in memory of the 15 people who lost their lives during the Bondi Beach terror attack last ...

Dean Jacobowski stands atop the Sydney Opera House as the first glimmer of the day’s summer sun bounces from the famous white sails. It’s early in the morning, three days before New Year’s Eve. The ...

Flags across the Sydney Harbour Bridge have flown at half mast as the families of the victims, Jewish leaders and politicians filed into the Opera House to mourn the 15 lives lost in the Bondi Beach ...

Join the guitar virtuoso for a magical concert in his native Australia recorded in May 2023. Join the man considered to be one of the greatest living guitarists for a magical concert at the Sydney ...

In the basement of The Opera Centre (“Toc” to those who work there), thousands of costumes are sewn, repaired and cleaned.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Thursday unveiled plans for the largest renovations to the Sydney Opera House since its opening in 1973, with more than A$200 million ($154 million/118.4 million pounds ...