Sydney Chamber Opera

Sydney Chamber Opera Sydney Chamber Opera is the home of contemporary opera in Sydney. We make opera with a 21st-century

Newly resident at Carriageworks, Sydney Chamber Opera is a fresh and youthful answer to some of the difficult questions facing today’s opera industry. Louis Garrick and Jack Symonds established SCO in 2010 and it has rapidly developed into an important and distinctive voice in the Australian music and theatre landscapes. SCO is critically acclaimed for its innovative programming, musical rigour an

d strong focus on compelling theatre-making. At SCO we make opera with a 21st-century outlook that resonates with a new, younger audience, and that shows how vibrant and relevant the artform can be. Each year we stage two to three productions of 20th and 21st-century repertoire. Our program is a balance of specially commissioned work by leading homegrown composers, the latest international operas in their Australian premieres, song cycles and cantatas in unusual stagings, and canonical repertoire reinvigorated by the country’s most daring theatrical talent.

Thank you and congratulations to The Oresteia team!
31/07/2026

Thank you and congratulations to The Oresteia team!

Peter McCallum ★★★★½"A message of forceful relevance to our own time....Navigating the music’s avant garde techniques an...
27/07/2026

Peter McCallum ★★★★½
"A message of forceful relevance to our own time....Navigating the music’s avant garde techniques and immense challenges with supreme clarity, conductor and Sydney Chamber Opera Director Jack Symonds directed the six singers and instrumental ensemble, Elision, in a performance of commanding control and astounding contemporary virtuosity."

The Oresteia | Shows left Jul 28, 30, 31

27/07/2026
The Guardian ★★★★★“Exhilarating wildness… front-row seats to vocal and instrumental virtuosity...In the wake of Covid an...
27/07/2026

The Guardian ★★★★★

“Exhilarating wildness… front-row seats to vocal and instrumental virtuosity...In the wake of Covid and amid a cost-of-living crisis, audiences and theatre companies have become more cautious. Almost everywhere you look, main stages are safe zones, bearing classics and adaptations of bestselling IP and marquee names. The new works are often undernourished, starved of development time and budget.

There are always daring artists killing themselves to make visionary work on a shoestring but works of scale whose ex*****on matches their ambition are thin on the ground. This is one of them.”

The Oresteia | Shows left - July 28,30,31

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Don't miss Liza Lim's The Oresteia at Carriageworks ★★★★★ "A seething symphony punctuated by the vehement screams and hi...
26/07/2026

Don't miss Liza Lim's The Oresteia at Carriageworks
★★★★★ "A seething symphony punctuated by the vehement screams and hisses of rage, hatred and vengeance, all spat into the air with visceral force by an exceptional company of singers" - Limelight

Shows left - July 28,30,31

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25/07/2026

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Read the Limelight review.

The Oresteia | Jul 24-31 @ Carriageworks
24/07/2026

The Oresteia | Jul 24-31 @ Carriageworks

Jack Symonds sat down with composer Liza Lim to talk about The Oresteia, an explosive, hour-long masterpiece of Australi...
22/07/2026

Jack Symonds sat down with composer Liza Lim to talk about The Oresteia, an explosive, hour-long masterpiece of Australian music, showing at Carriageworks for the first time since its 1993 world premiere. 24-31 July.

Hamlet Camp returns to Carriageworks for a strictly limited season from 7-25 January 2026. Tickets are on sale now, click here for more information.

13/07/2026

We’re so excited!

.phoenixPerformance archive:Mitchell Riley x Jack Symonds: Oh Mensch! | 17 April 2026OperaMitch Riley (.opera.theatre) a...
28/04/2026

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Performance archive:
Mitchell Riley x Jack Symonds: Oh Mensch! | 17 April 2026
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Mitch Riley (.opera.theatre) and Jack Symonds presented ‘O Mensch!’ — an expansive, hour-long song cycle by Pascal Dusapin, one of France’s leading contemporary composers.

Drawing on Nietzsche’s texts, the work reimagined the tradition of German Romantic Lieder through Dusapin’s distinctive musical language. Often likened to a contemporary Winterreise, it fused historical influence with a modern sensibility — moving between volatility and lyricism to create a deeply immersive experience.

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