Available worldwide from 30th Sept to 30th Oct 2023.
If there’s one role Dame Joan Sutherland will always be associated with, it’s Lucia. Her performance of the role at Covent Garden in London in 1959 made her an almost immediate superstar, with rave reviews and a rapturous audience response. Her version of the famous “mad scene” in the third act – an extraordinary technical challenge and showpiece for the singer playing Lucia – is now legendary.
She brought her performance home to Australia several times over the following decades, and returned to her signature role in 1986 in a season at the Sydney Opera House’s Concert Hall. This production was directed by John Copley and lavishly designed by Henry Bardon and Michael Stennett. Sutherland is joined by Richard Greager, Malcolm Donnelly, John Wegner and Clifford Grant and conducted by Richard Bonynge. (Stream Premiere)
Up Next in 50/50: 50 films celebrating 50 iconic years
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29/50: What is The City But The Peopl...
Available worldwide from 1st Oct 2023 until 1st Oct 2028.
Backed by live music and photographic and literary work created by local artists, What Is the City but the People? invites Sydneysiders who make up the fabric of our city to parade down a large scale catwalk on the Forecourt of Sydney Ope... -
30/50: Pussy Riot / Zona Prava - In C...
Available worldwide from 2nd Oct 2023.
Russian conceptual artists and political activists Nadezhda (Nadya) Tolokonnikova and Maria (Masha) Alekhina are founding members of the art collective Pussy Riot, who became a global symbol of dissent in Russia with their idiosyncratic blend of feminist ar... -
31/50: Ensemble Offspring - Hark the ...
Available worldwide from 3rd Oct to 3rd Nov 2023.
In 2018, Ensemble Offspring transformed the Utzon Room with music of today and the sounds of tomorrow in a program titled 'Hark The Machine'. Like an old machine gradually coming to life, we hear the rhythmic drive of American composers David Lan...
