After a two-year absence, the national opera company is bringing a staged performance to a new venue in Melbourne – with a promise that its 2024 season will “look better”.
performed in Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena. It will mark not only the company’s first arena show, but the first time the venue has hosted an opera.
So, is this pairing going to be a love match? Opera Australia’s new artistic director, Jo Davies, feels it is.is one of the best operas you can go to if it’s your first time at the opera, but I think it’s one of the best operas you can go to – if the storytelling is good – if you’ve seen it 100 times, because the opera itself is almost perfect in its structure,” she says.is a dramatic story of love, politics and bargaining, named for the opera singer at the heart of the tale.
It is “how we get the audience to really feel not just the epic nature of everything, but the intimacy as well, which is the real challenge”.was selected because 2024 will bring the 100th anniversary of composer Giacomo Puccini’s death. Margaret Court Arena was chosen as part of a move to find new venues amid the State Theatre’s upcoming closure for renovations.
“We’ve been trying to investigate different spaces that we can inhabit to still deliver full-scale, big-budget productions to Melbourne, which I think is really important for the company,” Davies says. “Part of the challenge with the State Theatre being closed is that we have to look for other venues and other spaces.
Karah Son and Diego Torre will appear in the Opera Australia production of Tosca at Margaret Court Arena.
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