A group of central Queenslanders is learning to sing Italian arias so they can take to the stage with professionals for a grand opera. The 30 singers in Rockhampton are taking part in Opera Queensland ...

With the setting sun forming a perfect blazing orb, the animals’ undulating backs seem to merge into a single silhouette as they inch across this vast pastoral station. Review is watching this ...

TOOWOOMBA singers will have their chance to shine when auditions for Opera Queensland’s next big production come to town. Opera Queensland's star-studded production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore ...

Students from small, remote schools in Queensland's central-west are set to take part in workshops run by professional opera singers and directors. Opera Queensland will take its Open Stage music ...

Opera Queensland has posted successive deficits and has negative reserves, contrary to requirements as a major performing arts company, according to the review discussion paper released last Friday.

There are two genres of music people love to hate — opera and country. Under a kaleidoscope of stars in outback Queensland, the two styles have merged and found a surprising audience. "Slim Dusty and ...

‘Modernizing’ opera with spare sets and costuming is an attractive proposition from several angles—smaller budgets and reduced complexity, among them. It can work because set dressing should, rightly, ...

Composed by Giacomo Puccini who is heralded as one of the greatest composers of all time, Opera Queensland's Tosca provides a powerful social-commentary on the manipulative nature of power and how ...

In 2017 it brought guitarist Karin Schaupp and cellist Umberto Clerici in an extraordinary concert. In 2018, it is bringing three stunning performers from Opera Queensland to Boonah for another ...

The 31-year-old Yeppoon man (pictured inset) is one of the many Central Queensland locals warming up their vocal cords for auditions of Opera Queensland's Project Rossini which is set to take to the ...

Sometimes an opera can turn into a circus without meaning to. This time, however, it’s quite intentional. When I heard that Opera Queensland was teaming up with world renowned Brisbane contemporary ...