OCCA Nomination for Outstanding Director 2025 Kate Millett Macbeth, @BK_Opera 📷 katemillettdirector.com

OCCA Nomination for Outstanding Female in a Leading Role 2025 Livia Brash Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, @BK_Opera 📷 Kate Cameron

OperaChaser Award for Outstanding Director 2024 Kate Millet Don Giovanni, @BK_Opera Photo: katemillet.com

Looking forward to everything @OperaAustralia, @VictorianOpera, @MelbourneOpera, @BK_Opera, @A_C_O, @LyricOperaMelb and @IOperaAus. Sometimes it seems like there’s never enough but the city sure has a broad variety of options.

Addressing Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the importance of sexual consent and the respectfulness of boundaries during intimacy play a key role and bring much to the table in @BK_Opera’s latest adaptation. My thoughts @arts_review: artsreview.com.au/don-giovan…

Certainly looks eerie enough on this wet and dark evening for @BK_Opera’s The Lighthouse, in a Melbourne premiere of composer and librettist Peter Maxwell Davies 1979 chamber opera.

Next Thurs 8th Sept, @BK_Opera’s The Lighthouse opens in @Melbourne’s inner north @morelandcouncil’s Brunswick Mechanics Institute. And now there’s that mounting thrill I recognise of a first time experience with an opera previously unknown to me. bkopera.com.au/the-lighthous…

Scaled down on a shoestring, Melbourne’s @BK_Opera brings the tragedy home in Puccini’s La bohème. My review: operachaser.blogspot.com/201…

Sung with passion and delivered on a shoestring, @BK_Opera’s La Boheme is a little ragged but it’s a stark reminder that operatic storytelling exists on so many scales. Not an ounce of snobbery to be seen here. Oh, and Belinda Dalton is a superbly cast Mimi well worth the ticket.

Back in Melbourne with more Puccini coming up tomorrow night courtesy of @BK_Opera with La bohème, presented in the city’s hyper-hip north at Northcote’s Wesley Anne, a venue I’m eager to see too. bkopera.com.au/boheme-2019

This might very well be what constitutes my opera plans for the rest the year. There’s broad scale appeal to dive into with @SFOpera, @VictorianOpera, @GertrudeOpera’s Yarra Valley Opera Festival, @LAOpera, @BK_Opera, @OperaAustralia and @pinchgut.

Two music stands, a background screen and two strong performances from Michael Lampard and Zara Barrett. That, and Kym Dillon’s electronically manipulated and reimagined score brought a flood of mystery, chills and tension in Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle for @BK_Opera. Nice work!

Let’s go and open a few doors. Or shall we leave that to Judith? Coming up at Howler @morelandcouncil’s Brunswick, Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle courtesy of @BK_Opera. And it starts with “Mister Dog” from Little Golden Books? Gotta think on this one.

The kind of places you end up in @melbournefringe...The MC Showroom in the backstreets of @Melbourne’s Prahran, venue for The Offenbach Retold Triptych, presented by @BK_Opera.

The laughs kept coming and coming in @BK_Opera’s zany new show, The Offenbach Retold Triptych @melbournefringe. Three short effervescent Offenbach operettas reimagined, fed by an opiatic sensibility and performed by an endearing cast of young artists. Clever, comical and cosy!

Quite a week of opera in Melbourne. In today’s @theheraldsun, my review of @BK_Opera’s unsettling, intriguing and dark adaptation of Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio. Tonight and Sunday only @CityofDarebin’s Studio 1, Northcote Town Hall.

Praise the Lord, it’s so much warmer inside than out. This is Mozart’s Abduction? Think not. It’s @BK_Opera’s and God is with us.

Really looking forward to reviewing some upcoming local opera opening nights @theheraldsun: 13th July: Madame Butterfly @OperaAustralia 14th July: William Tell @VictorianOpera 18th July: Mozart’s Abduction @BK_Opera 9th August: Der Rosenkavalier @MelbourneOpera.