Alma Latina! explores the vibrant soul of Latin music, featuring the much-loved Colombian tenor Carlos Bárcenas in a performance that brings to life the passion and rhythm of Latin America. 

Well known to Opera Queensland audiences, Carlos was most recently seen alongside soprano Jessica Pratt as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor. 

Joined by acclaimed pianist John Woods, Carlos will lead audiences on a musical journey through beloved Latin classics and contemporary favourites. His expressive voice and deep connection to his South American roots promise an unforgettable experience.

Carlos Bárcenas & John Woods: Alma Latina!

Redland Performing Arts Centre

Opera Queensland

Beethoven - Symphony No. 9

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

Mozart - Overtures and arias

In 17th-century Scotland, where irreconcilable clans clash, a young woman falls victim to her own family: a forced marriage will lead her to murder and madness. It is all the fever of romantic Bel Canto that ignites this dark masterpiece by Donizetti , sublimated by the emblematic production of Nicolas Joel, Ezio Frigerio and Franca Squarciapino . A double cast alternating between a star-studded cast and the most brilliant performers of the young generation.

Lucia di Lammermoor

Opéra National du Capitole

End of year Concert 2025

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi

Parthenope

San Carlo Theatre

Composed in the autumn of 1833, Lucrezia Borgia debuted at the Teatro alla Scala on 26 December of the same year. The source is the homonymous drama by Victor Hugo that Felice Romani, author of the libretto, arranged in a prologue and two acts. It was Donizetti himself who suggested to Romani that he make an opera libretto from Hugo's drama, attracted as much by the high-tension situations present in the text as by the dark atmospheres that surround the story.

Lucrezia Borgia

New album Here in the Pitch is her first release in half a decade, and working once again with her trusted collaborators – multi-instrumentalist/engineer Al Carlson and keyboardist Matt McDermott – Pratt also enlisted the rhythm duo of bassist Spencer Zahn and percussionist Mauro Refosco (David Byrne, Atoms for Peace) to help realize her vision. Pratt quickly envisioned a more expansive set of influences – “big panoramic sounds that make you think of the ocean and California” – and the results are evident in the dynamic repertoire of instruments accompanying her graceful, dreamlike melodies.

Jessica Pratt

The Grand Theatre & Opera House Leeds

From the opening seconds of “Life Is,” it’s clear that Here in the Pitch is a very different kind of album from Jessica Pratt. The revered Los Angeles artist has become one of the most singular and distinctive songwriters of her generation, largely through the bewitching sound of her acoustic guitar and vocals: a mystical, elusive blend that conjures deep emotional responses from her devoted (and patient) audience. To introduce her first release in half-a-decade, however, she greets us with neither her breathtaking vocals nor the delicate, sophisticated strum of her guitar. Instead, Pratt’s fourth album begins with a percussion roll that nods instantly to the grand, orchestral style of ’60s pop hits like the Walker Brothers’ “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore.”

The Stoller Hall

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The Atrium

London, «in the fall of the 16th century». Elizabetta I feels neglected by Roberto Devereux, Earl of Essex, with whom she is madly in love. Two of the Queen’s advisors, Lord Cecil and Raleigh, Essex’s enemies, ask her to charge him with treason for his lenient behaviour in the war against Spain. Elisabetta receives Roberto, who is detached and reserved. The Duke of Nottingham is also disturbed by the sadness of his wife Sara whom he has spotted embroidering a blue scarf: he therefore confides in Essex, ignoring the fact that his friend is himself in love with Sara. On a late-night rendezvous with the woman, Essex reproaches her for marrying Nottingham; Sara, on her part, reproaches him for wearing a ring on his finger given to him by the Queen, as a pledge of mercy in the event of his conviction. As a parting gift, Essex gives Sara Elisabetta’s ring and Sara hands him her scarf.

Roberto Devereux

Gaetano Donizetti Theater

A fantastic opera in a prologue, three acts and an epilogue, Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann was performed on 10 February 1881 at the Opéra- Comique in Paris. The author had been dead for a few months and had not been able to complete the score on which he had worked on and off over the years. After a long tug-of-war between Opéra-Comique director Léon Carvalho and librettist Jules Barbier, the task of completing the work was entrusted to Ernest Guiraud, a friend of the late composer. Offenbach had composed a copious amount of music for the Contes without, however, managing to find a definitive version. The variability of content is reflected in the layout of the work, which is full of time jumps, interruptions and digressions in pure Hoffmann style. E.T.A. Hoffmann, an apex figure of German Romanticism, is the protagonist of the story set in various European cities in the early 19th century. While the Prologue and Epilogue take place in Nuremberg in Master Luther's tavern, where Hoffmann begins to recount his love affairs, the intermediate acts take place in Paris, Munich and Venice respectively, and feature female figures at the centre: Olympia, Antonia and Juliet, the women loved by the writer. A complex and layered work, steeped in bizarre situations, diabolical spells and visions, Les contes d'Hoffmann restores to the listener a variety of musical atmospheres full of enchantment.

Jessica Pratt

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 11, 2026

Roberto Devereux · Fondazione Teatro Donizetti

Dec 20, 2026 - Jan 2, 2027

Les contes d'Hoffmann · Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Past events

16 - 18 Jul, 2026

Carlos Bárcenas & John Woods: Alma Latina! · Opera Queensland

Apr 29, 2026

Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 · Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in La traviata by Verdi

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Singer in Così fan tutte by Mozart

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti

Opéra national du Capitole

Singer in Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Singer in Don Pasquale by Donizetti

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Singer in Pagliacci by Leoncavallo

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Lucrezia Borgia in Lucrezia Borgia by Donizetti

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Singer in Linda di Chamounix by Donizetti

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Singer in La bohème by Puccini

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Singer in Rigoletto by Verdi

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux by Donizetti

Fondazione Teatro Donizetti

Singer in Die Zauberflöte by Mozart

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Singer in Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Singer in Das Land des Lächelns by Lehár

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Singer in Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Singer in Don Giovanni by Mozart

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Singer in La Sonnambula by Bellini

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Singer in La fille du régiment by Donizetti

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Singer in L’Elisir d’Amore by Donizetti

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Stella/Olympia/Antonia/Giulietta in Les contes d'Hoffmann by Offenbach

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Singer in Les Contes d’Hoffmann by Offenbach

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Singer in Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) by Offenbach

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Partenope 1 in Partenope by Morricone

Teatro di San Carlo

Singer in Die Lustige Witwe by Lehár

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Singer in L’Italiana in Algeri by Rossini

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

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