Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra
1) Don Giovanni
Publisher
Opera Australia
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Don Giovanni, a libertine, a rake with a devil-may-care attitude, is portrayed magnificently by the charismatic and sexy Teddy Tahu Rhodes, whose singing is magnificent...
2) La bohème
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Italiano
Description
Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive flower-maker, is a beautifully balanced series of tableaux depicting the infectious joie de vivre of youth and the tragic waste of disease and separation.
Publisher
Image Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A satire on the late 19th century's obsession with beauty and emotion. Twenty lovesick maidens abandon their fiances to moon over two poets. The poets, however, are distracted by the good natured and sensible milkmaid, Patience.
Author
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2008], c1995
Language
English
Description
"Set in the early 20th century, the aesthetic poet Bunthorne sings his love for Patience, the village milkmaid. Meanwhile he has captured the heart of every other lady in the village. Upon the arrival of the idyllic poet Grosvener, all hell breaks loose when he proposes to Patience."--Container.
5) The mikado
Publisher
Distributed by Kultur
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The parody of British Victorian life, spiced with the usual topical allusions to English customs and institutions, set in a Japanese Never-Never Land, is performed by The Australian Opera.
Author
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2008], c1997
Language
Italiano
Description
"An American lieutenant marries a beautiful young geisha, to the dismay of her family. Shortly after the wedding the lieutenant departs for America, and his wife bears him a child, alone. Three years later she excitedly awaits his return, only to find to her shock and despair, that he is returning with an American wife."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"The dizzyingly silly story of Eisenstein who would rather party than go to jail; his wife Rosalinde who is keen to teach him a lesson; and their pert maid Adele, whose eye for the main chance is unwavering. Then there are the high society types who move with ease between ballroom and prison cell."--Container.
