Media Releases
August 12, 2010 - VICTORIAN OPERA ANNOUNCES 2012 TO BE RICHARD GILL'S FINAL SEASON
Victorian Opera Chairman Michael Roux announced today Music Director Richard Gill's intention to finish as full time Music Director at the end of the 2012 season. Mr Roux added Richard will continue working with Victorian Opera beyond 2012 - but that it is now time to start the international search for his successor.
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May 27, 2010- AFTER SUCCESS VICTORIAN OPERA CONTINUES WITH TWO WINTER OPERAS
After announcing an operating surplus for 2009, and solid pre-sales for the season of The Threepenny Opera, Victorian Opera presents two dynamic and distinctive works this winter, with Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw from 7-17 July at the Arts Centre, followed swiftly by Georg Frideric Handel's Julius Caesar from 20-30 July at Melbourne Recital Centre.
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MAY 10, 2010 - EDUCATION UP FRONT AND CENTRE
In August and September 2010 Victorian Opera will present a series of vocal pedagogy workshops, led by singing teacher and former VCA Head of Voice, Anna Connolly. The workshops will examine the study and teaching of group and solo singing from the perspectives of both the teacher and the singer.
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MAY 5, 2010 - NEW OPERA FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
Five works have been shortlisted for workshop in the brand new initiative New Opera Ventures Australia (NOVA), Victorian Opera and Chamber Made Opera's partnership to enable the creation and development of new Australian opera and music theatre.
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MAY 3, 2010 - VICTORIAN OPERA'S 2009 ANNUAL REPORT
"Victorians are passionate about their opera company" Victorian Opera's Chairman Michael Roux states in the company's 2009 annual report.
Roux's message is clear, "Not only did audiences for mainstage and regional work increase by 46%, box office revenue grew by 39% and patronage by 29% from 2008. This support through box office and sponsorship (a total of $1,846,326) enabled Victorian Opera to achieve a net operating profit of $141,226 for 2009."
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February 25, 2010 - A DOUBLE BILL OF DELIGHTS - TWO OPERAS IN ONE NIGHT
Victorian Opera presents a double bill of two new productions of The Bear/Angelique.
A dynamic duo of a black comedy and a French farce will be on stage for eight performances including a preview at the Playhouse, Arts Centre, from Tuesday, March 10. These two exquisite comic operas feature two dramatic and intense women, performed by Jessica Aszodi as Popova in The Bear, and Theresa Borg as the title role in Angélique.
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FEBRUARY 16, 2010 - VICTORIAN OPERA GOING STRONG - 17 Green Room Award nominations
Victorian Opera has been nominated in every opera category and each production in the entire season has received a nomination for a Green Room Award. The brand new Australian work Rembrandt's Wife, composed by Andrew Ford and libretto by Sue Smith, received the most nominations.
Currently half of the VO nominated artists are rehearsing at Horti Hall for the upcoming double bill of The Bear and Angélique at the Playhouse, Arts Centre from 10-20 March 2010. They include Rembrandt's Wife director Talya Masel and set designer Adam Gardnir, as well as singers Gary Rowley, Andrew Collis, Samuel Dundas, Paul Biencourt and Jacob Caine.
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January 11, 2010 - WITNESS FAUST IN ALL ITS GLORY
Victorian Opera presents the concert work Berlioz -The Damnation of Faust at Hamer Hall, 7:30pm Friday, February 19
Victorian Opera begins 2010 with the spectacular concert work, The Damnation of Faustby Hector Berlioz, at Hamer Hall. One of the many musical works based on Goethe's Epic poemFaust, Berlioz's version is critically known as a 'dramatic legend'.
"As Victorian Opera's first lady of the year dies and goes to heaven, VO's annual concert tells the world that our year has begun its musical journey, featuring our glorious sixty-voice chorus and some of this country's finest operatic soloists. Bravery, bravado, brilliance, Berlioz." Richard Gill, Victorian Opera Music Director
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