Richard Mills

Discover the review and performance highlights of the world premiere of GALILEO, an opera conducted by Richard Mills at the Palais Theatre.

Victorian Opera and Opera Australia’s co-production of Idomeneo showcases stunning singing, majestic music from Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, and theatrical design excellence - achieved through set design being successfully blended with vivid video design and captivating cinematography. Rarely performed in Australia, Idomeneo is a night of opera that you don’t want to miss - 4 STARS

Graduate Singers will return to the newly refurbished Elder Hall on Saturday 5 August 7:30 pm to perform their second concert of 2023 entitled Requiem.

Graduate Singers wrap up their 2022 concert program with Cristemas, a concert celebration of all things Christmas, and a chance to reflect on the year gone by.

Queensland Performing Arts Centre has announced a new partnership with Brisbane-based nationally acclaimed chamber music group, Ensemble Q.

Graduate Singers – known to their audience as Grads – are thrilled to present In Good Company, their first concert for the 2022 season.

Roaring with charisma, wit and a killer cast, Victorian Opera presents Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann’s anti-capitalist musical comedy, Happy End, from 23 – 26 March at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Playhouse. 

Roaring with charisma, wit and a killer cast, Victorian Opera presents Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann's anti-capitalist musical comedy, Happy End, from 23 – 26 March at Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse.

Richard Mills AM has announced he will step down as the Artistic Director of Victorian Opera at the conclusion of the state opera company’s 2023 season. 

From rock to Rossini, Victorian Opera announces its Season 2022 with a year of undiscovered gems, thrilling epics and two world premieres. The state opera company presents eight productions, including three Australian operas.

Learn all about the production, cast, and how to get tickets now!

Following a rigorous audition process, Victorian Opera has announced baritone Stephen Marsh as the first recipient of the Michael Stubbs and Malcom Roberts Opera Prize. The $50,000 opera prize was announced as part of Victorian Opera’s 15th anniversary celebrations in October and attracted high-calibre candidates from across Australia.

Victorian Opera returns to the stage in 2021 celebrating local talent and Australian opera. Among its ten productions, Victorian Opera presents the long-awaited revival of Richard Meale’s Voss, last staged in 1990; the high-octane rock musical The Who’s Tommy; and the world premiere of four new operas by local composers.

With the cancellation of its world premiere new Australian work Three Tales, Victorian Opera will present the three short chamber operas online via its website and YouTube on Saturday 27 June at 7:30 pm.

In the wake of COVID-19, Victorian Opera swiftly adapted online to deliver a stream of diverse content, including a new recital series beginning this weekend and a comic mini-series written for university-aged singers reflecting on life in lockdown.

The composer Brett Dean, who was set to conduct Saturday evening's Adelaide Festival performance The Sound of History, has tested positive for COVID-19 upon travelling to Australia from a performance in Taiwan.

The Seraphim Trio return to North Sydney's spectacular Independent Theatre this June to present a mouth-watering concert of nostalgic European Romantic music - with an Australian twist! Plus the theatre's legendary afternoon tea included as part of the popular Sunday afternoon "Prelude in Tea" series.  

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents West End star Zachary Morris (Secret Garden, Spring Awakening, Rocky Horror) and international conductor Ben van Tienen (Funny Girl, West Side Story) making their Feinstein's/54 Below debut with Instructions for Dancing, a night of singing and storytelling. In a time filled with so much doubt and unrest, let yourself be transported into their world of acceptance and empowerment, reminding you through their heartfelt stories that we are all good enough as we are. Take a haunting journey through words, music, and consciousness as they cover the songs from Alan Menken and Jerry Herman to Fleetwood Mac and the Magnetic Fields. Mesmerizing and magical, Instructions for Dancing invites you to come and rediscover yourself at Feinstein's/54 Below. Instructions for dancing the album was created by Zach and Ben in 2016 during their time on the Rocky Horror Show and is available for download on all major music retailers. http://www.instructionsfordancing.com

Following an action packed 2018 Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra - promises to deliver another exceptional year for Queensland audiences in 2019.

The 2017 Helpmann Awards were presented at a star-studded ceremony tonight, Monday 24 July, in front of a full house at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney on the set of Kinky Boots.