Puccini’s one-act opera Il Tabarro will be staged on the 107-year-old Carpentaria, with the orchestra playing on a nearby barge Imagine Handa Opera on Sydney harbour but shorter (just an hour), with a ...

A recent convert to opera, and wanting to make an impression as a tyro director, Costi staged the opera as if in a meatworks, with the action happening around a white delivery van. Pig carcasses and ...

These two one-acters are unusual bedfellows. The Puccini is the first part of a trilogy called Il Trittico, while the Leoncavallo is usually coupled with Cavalleria Rusticana. I played the game of ...

The recording itself, too, doesn’t quite capture for me the essence of the work. Bertrand de Billy conducts the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony efficiently and swiftly (his Tabarro is some three minutes ...