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.
Big opera is back: Aida set to dazzle as high-tech meets Ancient Egypt
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Bruce Beresford, living legend of Australian cinema, is reluctantly persuaded to put on VR goggles for the first time.
He freezes in astonishment.
Director Bruce Beresford with Macbeth performers Eleanor Greenwood and Simon Meadows.
Credit:Penny Stephens
Breaker Morant and
Driving Miss Daisy. In the 3D, 360-degree virtual world created by the goggles, heâs sitting in a Melbourne bar while a pianist and opera singer perform the âdrinking songâ from
La Traviata.
Beresford turns his head, looking down at the keys on the piano, and around at the other bar patrons âbehindâ him, as the tuxedoed tenor warbles about the joys of booze and proffers a glass of champagne.