Sydney Chamber Opera

01/10/2026

Michelangelo Visionsphoenix with 17.09.2026 and 20.09.2026

Sung by

Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo - Hugo Wolf (1897)
In Stone - Jack Symonds with Sarah Giles (2026)
Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Op. 145 - Dmitry Shostakovich (1974)

Photos at The Church by Charlie Hardy.

Reviews, Peter McCallum’s Music Notes and Michael Wilson for Canberra City News.

In Stone is commissioned by and supported by the APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund and Mary-Jane Gething AO.

23/09/2026

Thrilled to announce performances for the Parramatta Opening Festival. We are creating new work with acclaimed British artist , as she presents her large-scale installation and choral performance, Come Home Again, for the first time in Australia. Over 11 nights from 7–27 November, Come Home Again is an intimate and monumental installation integrating new music, drawing, sculpture and light, featuring 244 hand-drawn depictions of vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered species from NSW.

We will perform two new compositions: Yuwaalaraay musician Nardi Simpson’s Stamus in Semper: We Stand on the Always, responding to Anton Bruckner’s Locus iste (1869), and Jack Symonds’s Radiant River, responding to Locus iste and a Cantata originally commissioned for the opening of the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879—as well as the birds of the Parramatta River. The performances also feature bespoke arrangements by incorporating Western Sydney choir , intercultural singer collective , and Noqu Vanua Choir (with ), who will join us each night to perform the new musical commissions.

SCO’s singers for this event include Sydney’s leading new vocal music specialists such as , , , , , .opera.theatre and .hurley.

31/07/2026

Thank you and congratulations to The Oresteia team!

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

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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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

25/07/2026

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Read the Limelight review.

24/07/2026

The Oresteia | Jul 24-31 @ Carriageworks

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.