| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 22-Mar-2013 Handa Opera, Sydney Harbour | Opera Australia's Carmen lights up Sydney's harbour |
 There can be fewer more idyllic places in the world to see an opera. Behind the floating stage was Sydney’s harbour bridge and opera house; to the left, the lights of the central business district; and to the right, the glittering lights of the Northern Shore and the occasional ferry making its way to Circular Quay. With last year’s Handa Opera on the Harbour, Verdi’s La Traviata having been named 2012 Australian event of the year, this year’s opera – Bizet’s Carmen – was highly anticipated.Read full review... | |
| 5-Oct-2011 Academy of Music | Opera Phila’s ‘Carmen’ Easy to Love |
 Some operagoers contend that Carmen, the fatalistic gypsy doomed to die, is unlikable. She antagonizes other women at the cigarette factory. She seduces men with abandon. She makes an inexperienced corporal of the guard fall for her, manipulates him into abandoning his military career for a life of smuggling, and then heartlessly turns him out like a pesky stray.
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| 8-Feb-2011 Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre | Opera Australia’s scintillating production of Carmen |
 In an opera of such popularity as Carmen by Georges Bizet, it wouldn’t be easy to please an audience likely to be inured to a variety of performances of arias such as Habanera and The Toreador’s Song. Yet Opera Australia made a thoughtfully constructed and well vindicated attempt.
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