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Vous consultez les archives de Wagner.

For Henry Higgins, professor of linguistics and confirmed misogynist, transforming a streeturchin into a lady is a trivial task, done to honour a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering. Until, of course, he meets the proud little cockney, Eliza Doolittle, and finds that his raw material might not be so easy to mould. Lerner and Loewe’s exuberant adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion was always destined to be a smash hit.

Teddy Tahu Rhodes pulls on his thigh length boots once more to sing the role which he has made his own. Joining him is John Pringle as his jaded sidekick Leporello, Kate Ladner as Donna Anna and Fiona Janes as feisty Donna Elvira. Tiffany Speight is Zerlina to Richard Anderson’s Masetto and, as the Commendatore, fellow New Zealander Jud ArthurTeddy Tahu Rhodes in his tracks. To conduct this masterpiece, Opera Australia welcomes Hungarian Imre Palló, making his debut with the company.

In an artistic coup for our national opera company, Richard Hickox conducts a new production of The Tales of Hoffmann directed by Stuart Maunder and featuring one of Australia’s most exciting artists, Emma Matthews, playing four different roles to create Hoffmann’s ultimate woman.

D’abord ce qui frappe… sur l’oeuvre proprement dite, pour celui qui comme moi découvre cet opéra, c’est le changement de ton total par rapport à Das Rheingold. Ici on abandonne, les nains, les géants, l’or, les profondeurs du Rhin, les chateaux imaginaires… il est question d’amour. Aussi on comprend pourquoi cet opéra fut le plus joué des 4.