Opera Australia Unveils 2025 Season

Opera Australia has announced its 2025 season. Sydney The season opens with Massenet’s “ Cendrillon .” Evan Rogister and Tahu Matheson conduct.

Laurent Pelly directs a cast starring Emily Edmonds, Margaret Plummer, Sian Sharp, and Emma Matthews. Performance Dates: Dec. 31, 2024 – March 28, 2025 “The Barber of Seville,” in a production by Elijah Moshinsky, stars Samuel Dale Johnson, Samuel Dundas, Helen Sherman, Emily Edmonds, John Longmuir, and Shanul Sharma.



Tahu Matheson conducts the production. Performance Dates: Jan. 18 – Feb.

28, 2025 Sarah Giles directs “La Traviata” with Samantha Clarke and Lorina Gore starring. Johannes Fritsch and Paul Fitzsimon conduct. Performance Dates: Jan.

23 – March 27, 2025 Shaun Rennie directs “Opera Up Late” with Reuben Kaye. Performance Dates: Jan. 30, 2025 Dean Bryant directs “Candide.

” Brett Weymark conducts a cast that stars Annie Aitkin. Performance Dates: Feb. 20 – March 14, 2025 Erin Heylard and Chad Kelly conduct “Dido and Aeneas” in a production by Yaron Lifschitz.

The cast includes Anna Dowsley, Jane Ede, and Nicholas Jones. Performance Dates: March 13 – 29, 2025 “Carmen” will be directed by Anne-Louise Sarks and conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya, Natalie Murray Beal, and Tahu Matheson. Cafiero.

The opera stars Rihab Chaieb, Danielle De Niese, Angela Hogan, Stacey Alleaume, Andrii Kymach, Phillip Rhodes, Jennifer Black, and Diego Torre. Performance Dates: July 10 – Sept. 19, 2025 Johannes Fritzsch conducts “Rusalka” in a production directed by Sarah Giles.

The opera stars Nicole Car, Gerard Schneider, Warwick Fyfe, and Ashlynn Tymms. Performance Dates: July 19 – August 11, 2025 David McVicar directs “Le Nozze di Figaro” with Siobhan Stagg, Gordon Bintner, Michael Sumuel, Kiandra Howarth, and Jane Ede. Teresa Riveiro Böhm conducts.

Performance Dates: July 31 – August 27, 2025 Gale Edwards directs “La Bohème” with Erina Yashima conducting. The opera stars Olivia Cranwell, Kang Wang, Iain Henderson, and Rachelle Durkin. Performance Dates: August 23 – Sept.

20, 2025 There will several “Great Opera Hits” concerts throughout the season. Performance Dates: TBA Melbourne There will be an open-air concert with conductor Brian Castles-Onion. Performance Dates: Feb.

5, 2025 The company will present a Verdi Gala with Nicole Car and Étienne Dupuis. Performance Dates: April 30 & May 5, 2025 There will be a tour of “La Bohème” directed by Dean Bryant. Performance Dates: July 7 – Sept.

14, 2025 The Spring season opens with “The Barber of Seville” in a production by Elijah Moshinsky. Tahu Matheson conducts the production. The cast includes Samuel Dale Johnson, Samuel Dundas, Helen Sherman, Emily Edmonds, John Longmuir, and Shanul Sharma.

Performance Dates: Oct. 31 – Nov. 5, 2025 “Carmen” will be directed by Anne-Louise Sarks and conducted by Clelia Cafiero.

The opera stars danielle De Niese, Abraham Bretòn, Sian Sharp, Jennifer Black, and Diego Torre. Performance Dates: Nov. 15-25, 2025 Closing out the Spring season is “Orpheus and Eurydice” with Iestyn Davies and Samantha Clark.

Dane Lam conducts and Yaron Lifschitz directs. Performance Dates: Dec. 2 – 5, 2025 Categories.