Joan Sutherland News

Sydney Opera House presents The Little Prince onstage at the Joan Sutherland Theatre. The season runs from Wednesday 26 May to Sunday 6 June 2021.

A Taste of Ireland: The Irish Music & Dance Sensation will have you laughing, crying and jigging into the night with a show that has entertained thousands. 

Several production in the Sydney area are in limbo due to tightened COVID-19 restrictions in the region after 18 new locally acquired cases were recorded this week.

The Sydney Opera House has announced that Bluey's Big Play The Stage Show will bounce onto the Joan Sutherland Theatre stage for the first time from 19 – 23 May 2021.

San Francisco Opera Center Director and Merola Opera Program Artistic Director Sheri Greenawald, whose December 2020 retirement was announced in March, received the San Francisco Opera Medal at a special Zoom event organized by San Francisco Opera and Merola Opera Program. The Opera Medal, the Company's highest honor, was awarded to Greenawald for her extraordinary service and leadership with the Company. 

Los Angeles Opera presents The Anonymous Lover (L'Amant Anonyme), an unjustly neglected 1780 chamber opera by Joseph Bologne, known as the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. James Conlon will conduct the orchestra. LAO will stream the performance online on Saturday, November 14, 2020, at 5:00 PM. Tickets are free at: https://bit.ly/3eiBtSF

 Opera Australia will return to the Joan Sutherland Theatre stage for the first time since the coronavirus shut down its 2020 season in March, today announcing a three-month COVID-safe season that includes two productions never before performed by the Company.

For this Australian Premiere at Vivid LIVE 2016, Max pushes the boundaries with an overnight performance of his eight-hour landmark ambient album, Sleep.

It's hardly a secret that during the Met's shutdown, the company has been treating audiences with nightly telecasts of everything from the company's current 'Live In HD' series to some scratchy videos that still had decent sound. All of them, however, can also be found on the Met's online subscription series, THE MET OPERA ON DEMAND, along with some audio highlights of extraordinary Saturday afternoon broadcasts. It's worth shelling out the money for this kind of quality.

Sydney Opera House will present Bell Shakespeare: John Bell, One Man In His Time. The event was recorded live in the Joan Sutherland Theatre.

Australian folk-pop singer and producer Gordi is set to play her official international album launch show for her latest record, Our Two Skins, out this Friday 26 June.

50 fearless and inspiring short works from some of Australia's best playwrights will be simultaneously livestreamed by more than 30 performing arts organisations from across Australia between the 2-5 July.

Today (May 15) in live streaming: Broadway's Next on Stage continues, ALW streams Cats and so much more!

Today (May 14) in live streaming: Broadway's Next on Stage premieres, Josh Groban hosts movie night and so much more!

Today (May 13) in live streaming: Ben Cameron counts down song about Spring, Laura Michelle Kelly sings Rodgers and Hammerstein and so much more!

Today (May 12) in live streaming: It's the Day of the Show Y'all with Spencer Glass, Ken Davenport chats with James Snyder and so much more!

The Met has announced the Week 10 schedule for its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure.

Today (May 11) in live streaming: Join the BroadwayWorld Book club, JRB and Georgia Stitt visit Stars in the House and so much more!

Emma Pask and her band live streamed their performance at the Joan Sutherland Theatre at the Sydney Opera House on Saturday, May 9. This was the first concerts to be live streamed from the empty venue.

Opera Australia has announced a further round of cancellations due to the ongoing coronavirus restrictions that will bring the total number of performances either cancelled or postponed in 2020 to more than 570 across the country.