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Neil Armfield and Erin Helyard have combined to create a showstopping and hilarious spectacle.

Neil Armfield and Erin Helyard have combined to create a showstopping and hilarious spectacle.

Neil Armfield and Erin Helyard have combined to create a showstopping and hilarious spectacle.

Neil Armfield and Erin Helyard have combined to create a showstopping and hilarious spectacle.

Papageno (Thomas Nolte-Crimp) and Tamino (Charles Hudson) with the magic flute. Photo: Peter Hislop. Musical theatre / “Die Zauberflöte” (The Magic Flute) directed by Peter Coleman-Wright for National Opera, June 27 only, at Albert Hall. Reviewed by ALPHA GREGORY.  A PLEASING ‘pocket opera’ production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” was presented by National Opera on Sunday afternoon in a rather cold Albert Hall.  The temperature didn’t deter the performers or the audience, wh...

Tristan Entwistle and Michaella Edelstein as Figaro and Cherubino. Opera / Pocket opera version of “Le Nozze di Figaro” National Opera. At Wesley Uniting Church, May 8 only. Reviewed by HELEN MUSA IN a formula he’s invented all by himself, the artistic director of National Opera, Peter Coleman-Wright, has come up with a way of staging opera on a shoestring that he hopes can reinvigorate the art form for today’s audiences. As he told the audience before the “Pocket Opera” performan...

Music / “La Clemenza di Tito”, by Mozart, National Opera. At Llewellyn Hall until April 17. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY. UNDER its new name of the National Opera, performing one of Mozart’s last operas, “La Clemenza di Tito”, the company stepped out for 2021 in its first performance of this dramatic and compelling work. Directed by Peter Coleman-Wright, with conductor, Dane Lam, chorus master, Tobias Cole, costumes, Fiona Victoria Hopkins and lighting, Mark Dyson with the Canberra Sympho...

Eleanor Greenwood as Annio, one of the two “pants” roles in the opera. THE National Opera bursts into being this weekend with Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito”, billed as a story of friendship and forgiveness triumphing over jealousy and violence. Former ANU School of Music graduates, mezzo-sopranos Eleanor Greenwood and Catherine Carby, have flown back to Australia to join the cast of top singers assembled by director Peter Coleman-Wright. Toby Cole is chorus master, while rising conduc...

Canberra is about to get its very own local Opera company called National Opera. The team is preparing to open with Mozarts opera La Clemenza di Tito, featuring an all Australian cast - many of whom grew up or trained in Canberra. National Opera artistic director Peter Coleman-Wright (AO), Chorus master Tobias Cole and part of the National Opera chorus joined ABC Radio Canberras Adrienne Francis for a special live performance outside the studios. Duration: 19min 26sec

Julian Ashton, “The Prospector”, 1889 (detail), oil on canvas on hardboard, Art Gallery of NSW, purchased 1889… National Library of Australia, March 12-July 11. ORIGINAL drawings and paintings by the artists of “The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia” will be on show at the National Library of Australia’s next big exhibition, “A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas“, a staged partnership with the Art Gallery of NSW. “The Atlas”, published between 1886 and 1889...