Opera Australia has announced its 2022 season, which includes a mix of productions originally scheduled for 2020 and 2021 but postponed due to COVID, the revival of some of its most popular productions, and a new digital staging of Il Trovatore.

Lyndon Terracini

Lyndon Terracini. Photo © Prudence Upton

The 2022 season opens on New Year’s Eve at the Sydney Opera House’s Joan Sutherland Theatre with a revival of Gale Edwards’s celebrated production of Puccini’s La Bohème – as the Sydney Summer Season has done on a regular basis since Edwards’ production, set in 1930s Germany, premiered in 2011.

However, Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini says that this will be the final time it will be presented, with a new La Bohème to be unveiled in 2023.

“Gale’s production of La Bohème is certainly close to my heart, it was the first opera I commissioned when I started at OA back in 2009 and it has served the company wonderfully well. It is loved by people the world over, so this is an opportunity for audiences to see it one last time and bid her farewell,” says...