BondStore Cafe
1 Riverside Quay
Southbank (entry via Cook St)

Sarah Cole - Mezzo Soprano
Laurence Meikle - Baritone
Jacqueline Porter - Soprano
Phillipa Safey - Pianist

Sit back and relax with a glass of wine
and the sensuous sounds of opera.

The historic 1888 Jones Bond Store will play host to arias & ensembles from famous works including Carmen, Cosi fan Tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, The Tales of Hoffmann, & West Side Story.

Tickets $45 - Includes gourmet finger food
Drinks at bar prices

To ensure this is a unique and intimate experience, seating is strictly limited to 50 patrons.

This event is brought to you by the baron

Miscellany Ensemble 2008 Concert Series

Mothers Day - Songs of Love for Harp & Voices

Sun 11 May 2008
2.30 pm

Box Hill Community Arts Centre
470 Station Street, Box Hill
cnr Station and Combarton Streets

Megan Reeve - Harp
Roy Best - Tenor
Sarah Cole - Mezzo Soprano

Performing music inspired by love; Composed by
Britten, Faure, Cherubini, Bizet and Calvin Bowman

Tickets $24/$18/$10 - Available at the door

A Night At The Opera

Sat 8 Mar 2008
7.30 pm

St Peter Apostle Mission Parish
31 Guinane Ave
Hoppers Crossing

Come and celebrate the many well known and loved
opera classics sung by Sarah Cole, Michael Lapina &
Mary Toye, with pianist Joseph Beckitt.

General Admission: $20
$15 if you order before 14 February
$45 Family tickets available (Conditions Apply)

To order tickets call
Michael: 0414 586 607
Parish Office: 03 9749 4300
Email: NightAtTheOpera@internode.on.net

Summer Fun in the City
Sundays in the Park

Sun 3 Feb 2008
4pm to 6pm

Fitzroy Gardens Stage Lawn
Fitzroy Gardens Street
East Melbourne

Join the Rising Starts of Victorian Opera, Sarah Cole,
Mylinda Joyce, Laurence Meikle and James Egglestone
in a concert full of sparkling arias, duets and ensembles.

Enjoy a lazy afternoon with a concert in the Fitzroy Gardens.  Sundays in the Park is sure to keep you entertained.  Stay afterwards for Twilight moves and Twilight Rhythms.

This event is presented by The City of Melbourne.
Phone: 03 9658 9658
Email: enquiries@melbourne.vic.gov.au

2007

John Cage's Musicircus
Melbourne International Arts Festival

Fri 26 Oct 2007

BMW Edge - Federation Square

John Cage's Musicircus is a
large-scale simultaneous performance
event involving musicians, dancers,
visual artists, poets and a pony.
Audiences are invited to move around
the BMW Edge anytime from dusk to
dawn to explore works by local and
international artists all being performed together at the one time.

Victorian Opera
La Cage aux folles

Existentially, there couldn't be anything more present than the present or less past than the past without our future, which is never present. We happy band of musicians exist in a present which will one day, presently, be no longer present. Whether it be 4'33'' or a much later train depends on another 100 people, or the rain, or the patience etherised upon the tables.

Performing on the night will be: Nicholas Carter, Sarah Cole, Samuel Dundas, Richard Gill, David McSkimming and Jacqueline Porter.

Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart

6 Oct - 6 Nov 2007
Victorian Opera - Regional Tour

Jean-Pierre Mignon's acclaimed production of Così fan tutte returns to perform in Metropolitan and regional theatres throughout Victoria.
Performances will be sung in English and accompanied by a chamber ensemble from Orchestra Victoria.

The Love of the Nightingale
By Richard Mills

World Premiere Season
Brisbane 13th, 16 & 18 Jul 2007
Victoria 27 & 29 Jul 2007

Richard Gill - Conductor
Lindy Hume - Director

Anke Höppner - Procne
Douglas McNicol - Tereus
Leanne Kenneally - Philomele
Elizabeth Campbell - Niobe
James Egglestone - Captain/Hippolytus
Adrian McEniery - First Soldier/Pandion
Samuel Dundas - Second Soldier
Kate Sheppeard - Echo/Aphrodite
Annabelle Chaffey - Helen/Phaedra
Sarah Crane - Hero
Sarah Cole - Iris/Female Chorus
Roxane Hislop - June/Queen

Orchestra Victoria

Based on the 3000-year-old legend of Philomele and Procne, the story of The Love of the Nightingale inspired Sophocles, Ovid and Shakespeare, and continues to fascinate today.

An explosive drama about the power of words and the ultimate price of using violence to enforce silence, the story unfolds through the lives of two royal sisters from ancient Greece, taken to barbaric Thrace by King Tereus.

The creative team from Batavia come together to bring this powerful epic into modern focus.

Miscellany Ensemble 2007 Concert Series
Mothers Day - Concert 1

Sun 13 May 2007

Box Hill Community Arts Centre
cnr Station and Combarton Streets

Megan Reeve - Harp
Kathryn Moorhead - Flute
Sarah Cole - Mezzo Soprano

Music by Donizetti, Debussy, Colin Brumby & Gershwin

2006

St John Passion by J.S. Bach

Fri 8 Sep 2006

St Michael's Uniting Church
120 Collins St, Melbourne

Richard Gill - Conductor
David McSkimming - Harpsichord

Matthew Davine - Evangelist
Jerzy Kozlowski - Christ
Samuel Dundas - Pilate/Bass Arias
Christopher Saunders - Tenor Arias
Louisa Hunter-Bradley - Soprano Arias
Sarah Cole - Alto Arias

With the Victorian Opera Chorus & Orchestra Victoria

Victorian Opera Gala

Sat 15 Jul 2006

Hamer Hall, Melbourne

Richard Gill - Conductor

Soloists:
Theresa Borg, Joanna Cole, Sarah Cole, Samuel Dundas, James Egglestone, Kirsti Harms,
Roxane Hislop, Louisa Hunter-Bradley, Rosamund Illing, Andrew Jones, Mylinda Joyce, Manfred Pohlenz, Jacqueline Porter, Christopher Saunders, Dean Sky-Lucas

With the Victorian Opera Chorus & Orchestra Victoria 

The program will trace a journey through operatic history and will include arias, ensembles and choruses from The Magic Flute, La traviata, Nabucco, Fidelio, Tannhauser and Madama Butterfly.