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Season Guide
Explore what's in store for 2024 and plan your year of fabulous nights out.
With this one-sentence guide to every opera in the season, with music clips, it's easy to curate your season subscription package.
Book tickets to the production of your choice or create your Sydney Subscription Package and save.
Musical
Sunset Boulevard
From 28 August 2024
Sydney Opera House
Musical superstar Sarah Brightman stars in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s extraordinary musical about a Hollywood icon.
A must-see if you love stories of old Hollywood, legends on stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals.
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Symonds
Gilgamesh
26 September – 5 October 2024
Carriageworks, Sydney
The world’s oldest poem meets opera’s most cutting-edge artists in this spectacular new work, directed by Kip Williams (Sydney Theatre Company’s The Picture of Dorian Gray).
A must see if you love the most cutting-edge contemporary opera, ancient mythology, stories of love and loss.
Mills
Eucalyptus
16 – 19 October 2024
Palais Theatre, Melbourne
A new opera based on Murray Bail’s acclaimed novel, Eucalyptus is an Australian fairytale, unusual love story and poetic ode to trees.
A must see if you love contemporary opera, Australian stories, strong female leads.
Mozart
The Magic Flute
9 – 16 November 2024
Geelong Arts Centre
Embark on an enchanting adventure and meet a host of wondrous characters in Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
A must-see if you love adventure stories, famous music, happy endings, opera performed in English.
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Chorus!
13 & 15 November 2024
Geelong Arts Centre
Prepare for goosebumps. Chorus! assembles the Opera Australia Chorus in full force, to deliver an exhilarating program of opera’s grandest highlights.
A must-see if you love passionate singing, chorale music, or the Hallelujah Chorus during Carols by Candlelight.
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Book a Sydney Subscription Package and Save.
When you purchase a multi-pack subscription of two or more productions you unlock your exclusive subscriber discount, priority booking, and free ticket exchanges, among other exclusive benefits.
Your exclusive subscriber discount:
- 10% off when you book 2 performances
- 15% off when you book 3 or 4 performances
- 20% off when you book 5+ performances
Victoria Season 2024
While the State Theatre theatre is being revamped, we will perform in a range of venues across Melbourne and Victoria. This means packages will not be available and tickets for many productions will be booked through our new venues directly.
Recent Season Subscriber?
If you’re a recent Season Subscriber, you may be eligible to an exclusive 15% discount across all operas in 2024 and a 10% discount for Sunset Boulevard.
Past events
Opera Gala at the Sydney Opera House
31 December 2023
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
A wild operatic celebration with a distinctively Australian flavour. Sydney’s world-famous New Year’s Eve fireworks are the cherry on top.
A must-see if you love big voices, big laughs and fireworks – both dramatic and literal.
Verdi
La Traviata on New Year's Eve
31 December 2023
Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House
Glamour, riches and a tragic secret: La Traviata is the story of a courtesan falling in love. Classic opera with stunning costumes, outstanding music and a fresh perspective.
A must-see if you love Moulin Rouge, a good tearjerker film, gorgeous period costumes, music you can hum after the show.
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Verdi
La Traviata
2 January – 14 March 2024
Sydney Opera House
Glamour, riches and a tragic secret: La Traviata is the story of a courtesan falling in love. Classic opera with stunning costumes, outstanding music and a fresh perspective.
A must-see if you love Moulin Rouge, a good tearjerker film, gorgeous period costumes, music you can hum after the show.
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Gluck
Orpheus & Eurydice
12 – 31 January 2024
Sydney Opera House
Journey to the underworld and back with the grieving Orpheus. Awe-inspiring acrobatics meet Gluck’s exquisite music in this genre-busting production created with the internationally renowned Circa.
A must-see if you love contemporary circus or dance, fantasy novels or nerding out on ancient myths and legends.
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Mozart
The Magic Flute
1 February – 16 March 2024
Sydney Opera House
Embark on an enchanting adventure and meet a host of wondrous characters in Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
A must-see if you love adventure stories, famous music, happy endings, opera performed in English.
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Handel
Theodora in Concert
8 & 9 February 2024
Sydney Opera House
Lose yourself in the sublime music of Handel’s Theodora in this collaboration between the internationally celebrated Pinchgut Opera and Opera Australia.
A must-see if you love baroque music, powerful choral works, being able to see the orchestra on stage.
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Mozart
Idomeneo
20 February – 15 March 2024
Sydney Opera House
An epic opera about gods and monsters, human frailty and the power of love. Mozart’s genius is on full display.
A must-see if you love myths and legends, epic stories, brilliant ensemble singing.
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Musical
West Side Story on Sydney Harbour
22 March – 21 April 2024
Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour
A musical masterpiece returns to Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour in a thrilling, larger-than-life staging. Dynamic dance numbers and fireworks soar across the harbour.
A must see if you love Romeo and Juliet, showstopping song and dance numbers, a tear-jerking ending.
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Twist
Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan
14 – 16 June 2024
Sydney Opera House
A dazzling new operatic work by some of Australia’s most acclaimed creative talents, bringing a real-life tragedy, and eventual triumph, to the stage.
A must-see if you love Choral music, stories of triumph over adversity, visually stunning and physically thrilling productions.
Puccini
Tosca
25 June – 16 August 2024
Sydney Opera House
A thriller with sensational music, opera’s best villain and an unforgettable ending, Tosca will keep you on the edge of your seat.
A must-see if you love stories full of action, films about love and war, stunning choral music.
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Puccini
Il Trittico
3 – 19 July 2024
Sydney Opera House
Three short operas by one of opera’s greatest composers offer a triple helping of music and emotion: thrilling drama, personal crisis and sparkling comedy.
A must-see if you love getting bang for your buck, emotional stories, melodrama.
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Dean
Hamlet
20 July – 9 August 2024
Sydney Opera House
Shakespeare’s searing portrait of a prince in crisis in an acclaimed contemporary opera by Australian composer Brett Dean.
A must see if you love Shakespeare, contemporary opera and theatre, political drama.
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The Puccini Gala Concert
25 & 27 July 2024
Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall
A star-studded celebration of some of opera’s most moving music.
A must see if you love opera anthems, tear-jerkers and hearing some of the world's finest voices in concert.
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Mazzoli
Breaking the Waves
26 July 2024
Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall
Lars von Trier’s film about a young woman’s shocking sacrifices for her husband is a powerful new opera for our times, by one of the world’s most exciting composers, Missy Mazzoli.
A must-see if you love moody cinema, psychological drama, contemporary opera at its most adventurous.
Mozart
Così fan tutte
1 – 17 August 2024
Sydney Opera House
Two men attempt to seduce the other’s lover in an elaborate ruse to win a bet. Mozart’s sublime music makes this opera must-see.
A must-see if you love light-hearted stories, gorgeous music, costume drama-comedies like A Room with a View.