Opera
Eleanor Lyons. Photo: Live Photography
August 4, 2026, 10:11 am
The courage to be sincere
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin speaks powerfully to modern audiences, breaking down walls and showing how vulnerability can be a positive thing.
By Jessica Abelsohn
Serse, Landestheater Detmold 2023. Photo: Matthias Jung
August 3, 2026, 3:05 pm
Opera’s TikTok moment
Maayan Licht is making Gen Z fall in love with 300-year-old music, with TikTok videos have been watched more than 100 million times.
By Jessica Abelsohn
Eugene Onegin production. Photo: Neil Harrison
July 29, 2026, 12:58 pm
The courage to be sincere
Eleanor Lyons says Tchaikovsky's heroine taught her that vulnerability is not weakness, and that sincerity takes more courage than detachment ever will.
By Jessica Abelsohn
May 22, 2025, 11:23 am
Reimagining The Fairy Queen
Starring Eden Shifroni, The Fairy Queen unfolds over 24 hours, taking audiences through a kaleidoscope of moments all set against Purcell's sublime score.
By Jessica Abelsohn
Opera Queensland and Circa perform Dido and Aeneas dress rehearsal Playhouse Theatre QPAC. Photo: David Kelly
March 3, 2025, 1:29 pm
When circus and opera combine
Upcoming opera Dido & Aeneas combines jaw-dropping acrobatics and exhilarating physicality with the stunning musicianship of Opera Australia.
By Jessica Abelsohn
Photo: Jolanta Morgan
January 28, 2025, 2:10 pm
Eden Shifroni wins prestigious opera award
‘I’m deeply grateful because this feels like the perfect next step for me. The stars seemed to align in just the right way’
By AJN STAFF
UK tour of Miss Saigon. Photo: Johan Persson
July 3, 2023, 6:00 am
Where heartache and hope intertwine
Miss Saigon has been captivating audiences since it first premiered in 1989. A haunting story with a magical musical score, it's once again set to transport audiences to Vietnam with a new production premiering at Sydney Opera House. Jessica Abelsohn looks at the musical's journey.
By Jessica Abelsohn
Photo: Opera Australia
January 18, 2023, 12:01 pm
Kissin’s dramatic debut in Don Giovanni
Opera may not have been where Yurri Kissin started his career but it has taken him to amazing places.
By Jessica Abelsohn
Eden performs at the 2022 NSW Jewish Board of Deputies' Kristallnacht commemoration. Photo: Giselle Haber
January 18, 2023, 3:00 am
Taking the operatic world by storm
Eden Shifroni was always into jazz with her musical curiosity well and truly nourished in her childhood years.
By Jessica Abelsohn
Opera Australia's production of Carmen. Photo: Opera Australia
November 8, 2022, 9:00 am
The ultimate femme fatale is back
'The edgy new immersive production will have motorbike stunts and fireworks, and contains music so popular that even first-time opera goers will recognise and fall in love with it'
By Jessica Abelsohn
Husband-wife musical duo Vladimir Fanshil and Eleanor Lyons.
July 27, 2020, 12:42 pm
Distance an inspiration
Eleanor Lyons and Vladimir Fanshil travel the world performing in some of the grandest concert halls. Now they're bringing music to people on a smaller but no less meaningful scale
By Sophie Deutsch
Eleanor Lyons as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. Photo: Keith Saunders
January 30, 2020, 12:00 am
Opera viewed with a Jewish slant
Jewish soprano Eleanor Lyons plays Donna Anna in Opera Australia’s production of the Mozart classic, Don Giovanni, currently playing at the Sydney Opera House.
By Sophie Deutsch
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