Big opera is back: Aida set to dazzle as high-tech meets Ancient Egypt
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May 6 is a significant date in Melbourneâs COVID-era recovery. The State Theatre will come alive after a year in darkness, when Opera Australia performs here for the first time since December 2019. Unlike many other performing-arts organisations, which have cautiously approached this pandemic year with small casts and minimal sets, the company is returning to its southern port with all guns blazing.
Opera Australiaâs spectacular production of Aida.
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The Australian planning operas in the land of Game of Thrones
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When the chance to move to Northern Ireland to run an opera company came on his radar, Australian director Cameron Menzies thought of one thing straight away: itâs where they made
Game of Thrones.
âNorthern Ireland has such amazing venues and sites,â he says. âItâs the playground of
Game of Thrones â so many great visual spaces.â
Opera director Cameron Menzies
Credit:Craig Fuller for Victorian Opera
His imagination ran riot. What if, for example, he could find beautiful castle ruins to stage Bartokâs expressionist