2019 Opera Australia Sydney Subscriptions

About the eventExplore a season full of highlights, charting a course through love and passion and despair (this is opera, after all). You can laugh and revel in extraordinary talent, or gasp your way through ghost stories. Build your own subscription with your choice of operas and dates. You can include whatever you like, from West Side Story on Sydney Harbour to favourites like Madama Butterfly and La Bohème.2019 Shows:West Side Story on Sydney HarbourThe landmark musical takes the iconic harbour stage in a swirl of dance, romance and Broadway classics.La BohèmeThe original Bohemian love story, set among the fishnets and fairy lights of 1930s Berlin.Madama ButterflyThe world’s most famous love story in a bold new production by choreographer Graeme Murphy.TurandotA prince pursues an ice-cold princess in a stunning opera full of riddles and intrigue. (It’s the one with ‘Nessun dorma’.)The Marriage of FigaroExquisite period sets and costumes feature in this Downton Abbey-style comedy where servants get the better of their masters.WhiteleyThe talents and troubles of iconic Australian artist Brett Whiteley inspire a brand new Australian opera from the incomparable Elena Kats-Chernin. Anna BolenaKing Henry VIII tries to rid himself of Anne Boleyn in this historical drama with some of Donizetti’s best music.West Side StoryHailed as the greatest Broadway musical of all time, the genius of West Side Story's creators is unquestioned. Ghost SonataStrindberg’s haunting play gets the operatic treatment in Reimann’s evocative chamber opera, set in a house where nothing is as it seems.In Concert: Andrea ChénierHear the world’s greatest tenor, Jonas Kaufmann in this concert performance (no sets or costumes) of a passionate French Revolution love story. Il Viaggio a ReimsA frivolous excuse for a huge cast of fabulous singers to knock your socks off. This playful production features the world’s most famous artworks.SalomeLust, violence and religious fervor all have their moments in this short, compelling opera about the worst of human nature.WozzeckVisual artist William Kentridge transforms a 20th century operatic masterpiece into a must-see meeting of art, opera and theatre.WertherThe ultimate Romantic opera about unrequited love. Pure passion and brilliant voices.