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Semester 1 2025

Monday 31 March - A Bel Canto Gala

Monday 24 March - Parsifal Re-Analysed

Monday 17 March - Pacific Opera's Young Artists for 2025

Monday 10 March - Purcell's Dido & Aeneas

Monday 3 March - Bernstein's Candide

Monday 24 February - Massenet's Cinderella

Monday 17 February - Singers of Australasia - John Shaw & Robert Allman

Monday 10 February - The Frozen Ensemble

Monday 3 February - Janacek's Katya Kabanova


Semester 2 2024

Monday 18 November - Annual Concert & Lunch

Monday 11 November - A Celebration ofTwo Centeneries - Charles Villiers Stanford & Gabriel Faure

Monday 4 November - From Elektra to Rosenkavalier - Strauss' Conservative Turn?

Monday 28 October - Transforming Passion

Monday 21 October - Political Opera

Monday 14 October - Handel's Julius Caesar

Monday 30 September - Call Me 'La Farrugia'!

Monday 23 September - Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia

Monday 16 September - Berlioz's Les Troyens - Part I - The Taking of Troy

Monday 9 September - Running an Independent Opera - The Operantics Story

Monday 2 September 2024 - Cosi Fan Tutte: Mozart's Mysogenistic Masterpiece?

Monday 26 August 2024 - The Physics of Singing & The Mechanics of Musicianship

Monday 19 August 2024 - Lully on Opera

Monday 12 August 2024 - The Operas of Franz Schreker

Monday 5 August 2024 - Show & Tell

Monday 29 July 2024 - Aspects of Love - Forbidden, Maternal and Paternal: Puccini's Il Trittico

Monday 22 July 2024 - Wagner's Tristan and Isolde - II

Monday 15 July 2024 - Wagner's Tristan and Isolde - I

Semester 1 2024

Monday 3 June 2024 - Un Ballo in Maschera

Monday 27 May 2024 - Great Opera Nights

Monday 20 May 2024 - The Operas of Purcell

Monday 13 May 2024 - Wagner & Philosophy

Monday 6 May 2024 - Novel to Film to Opera: The Hours - Kevin Puts (2022) 

Monday 29 April 2024 - The Operas of Prokofiev

Monday 22 April 2024 - Paul Dukas' Ariane et Bebe-Bleu

Monday 15 April 2024 - Lauris Elms & Marilyn Richardson

Monday 8 April 2024 - La Gioconda: After the Fact

Monday 24 March 2024 - William Byrd: Insights Into the Career and Music of One of England's Greatest Composers 400 Years After His Death

Monday 18 March 2024 - Barber & Menotti - II

Monday 11 March 2024 - Barber & Menotti - I

Monday 4 March 2024 - The Unique Operatic Vision of Philip Glass

Monday February 26 - Mozart's Idomeneo

Monday February 19 - Nathalie Dessay & Becoming Traviata

Monday February 12 - Richard Meale's Voss

Semester 2 2023

Monday 20 November - Annual Concert & Lunch

Monday 13 November - From Lohengrin to Rheingold: Wagner's Evolutionary Leap

Monday 6 November - Benjamin Britten's War Requiem

Monday 30 October - Pinchgut's Production of Handel's Rinaldo

Monday 23 October - Verdi's Macbeth

Monday 16 October - The Bendigo Ring -Cycle - Peparation, Endurance and Triumph

Monday 9 October - Great Singers of Australasia - Donald Smith

Monday 25 September - Show and Tell 2023

Monday 18 September - Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Medium"

Monday 11 September - Mozart Arias from the Basilica of St Denis in Paris

Monday 4 September 2023 - Verdi's Requiem

Monday 28 August 2023 - An Homage to Kaija Saariaho

Monday August 21 - Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen - II

Monday August 14 - Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen - I

Monday August 7 - Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande

Monday July 31 - Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites

Monday July 24 - Beethoven's Fidelio

Monday July 17 - Early German Romantic Opera

Semester 1 2023

Monday June 19 - Strauss's Die Fledermaus

Monday June 5 - The Many Tales of Hoffman

Monday May 29 2023 - Think Then Sing

Monday May 22 2023 - Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold

Monday May 15 2023 - Pinchgut Opera's Giustino by Giovanni Legrenzi

Monday May 8 2023 - Carl Nielsen's Saul & David

Monday May 1 2023 - The Opera Chorus 

Monday April 24 2023 - Handel Sopranos

Monday April 17 2023 - Women in Britten's Operas

Monday April 3 2023 - Richard Wagner's Tannhauser

Monday March 27 2023 - German Opera 1911 - 1920

Monday March 20 2023 - Metamorphosis of the Aria

Monday March 13 2023 - Shakespeare in Opera

Monday October 24 2022 - Opera in the Golden Age and the Art of Bel Canto