Beautiful music and a breathtaking spectacle
In Sydney, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing with harbour views and glass of bubbly. Why spend an autumn evening stuck inside the Sydney Opera House when you could be in the delightful gardens of Mrs Macquaries Point? And since you’re there after dark, how about some fireworks? And if you’re taking on Verdi’s La Traviata you’ll want a decent-sized stage for the orchestra and chorus, so why not just build one over the water? Hey, they can just take it down after the three-week run... And given a budget of $12 million, why not throw in a nine-metre chandelier? If you’re getting a top soprano to sing the most famous drinking song in the operatic repertoire, why not crank her up to the chandelier with a camouflaged 26-metre crane? It’s all so obvious, we can’t understand why nobody thought of it before.
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Sydney 2000
Date 24 Mar-15 Apr
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