Day: June 23, 2014

Opera Australia has released soprano Tamar Iveri from her contract and she will not be performing in its Sydney production of Otello in July and August. A statement posted on the singer’s Facebook page last year compared gays and lesbians to fecal matter. Opera Australia had been under intense public pressure to release the singer […]

NZ Opera’s production of La Traviata opened in Auckland on 19 June to enthusiastic acclaim from a full house at the Aotea Centre. Verdi’s tale of a fragile society girl in Paris who reluctantly accepts love only to be forced to give him up, is possibly the most performed opera in the world and a […]