

The music shines with unexpected vibrancy of styles and variety of colours. The vocalists display a range of techniques from belting and opera to soft head voice tones, and a palette of ensemble and choral textures that are rarely heard in other works.


Melbourne Opera celebrates it's tenth anniversary with Puccini's famous and well-loved opera, La bohéme.

Never a mere headline performance bolstered by two token supports, theirs are concerts re-imagined as eclectic, carefully curated events – designed to showcase not just their own exciting work but that of their contemporaries and peers.

Fat Swan is a perfect fit for the Spiegletent. A portly drag queen in a tutu, a film star, a musical theatre goddess, a reality TV star, and a send-up of last year's most send-up-able cinema hit.

Cy*bent*ity has the scope to be really, very scary. If you 'friend' its central character, Polly Wolly, on facebook, and then see the show, you have no idea what she could dig up.