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SUMMARY:IOpera: Michael Nyman's 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat' Tickets
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce that our next production is a 40th Anniversary staging of Michael Nyman‘s operatic adaptation of Oliver Sacks‘ best-seller neurological case study THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT (1986) \nClosely following his story\, the one-hour opera explores the mind of “Dr. P\,” a professional opera singer and music teacher\, for whom the world has been rendered visually incomprehensible as a result of a degenerative neurological disorder. \nRunning for just on an hour\, the opera explores both common preconceptions about dementia-related illnesses and the extraordinary ways one afflicted man and his wife cope.  Nyman’s lyrical score demonstrates all the accessible and appealing qualities that he later also exhibited in his music for Jane Campion’s The PIano (1993). \nFor this production we welcome back three of Australia’s most accomplished operatic performers: Elena Xanthoudakis\, Christopher HIllier\, and Robert Macfarlane\, and a chamber orchestra (including members of the Invictus String Quartet). \nThree performances only\, all in the intimate surrounds of the Athenaeum II Theatre\, 188 Collins St\, Melbourne. \n   Friday 20 March\, 7:30 pm \n   Saturday 21 March\, 5:00 pm \n   Saturday 21 March\, 7:00 pm \nTICKETS: $69 – $49 \nTickets are otherwise available through Ticketmaster: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/michael-nyman-s-the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat-tickets/artist/4163359
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/iopera-michael-nymans-the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat-tickets/2026-03-21/2/
LOCATION:Athenaeum 2
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SUMMARY:IOpera: Michael Nyman's 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat' Tickets
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce that our next production is a 40th Anniversary staging of Michael Nyman‘s operatic adaptation of Oliver Sacks‘ best-seller neurological case study THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT (1986) \nClosely following his story\, the one-hour opera explores the mind of “Dr. P\,” a professional opera singer and music teacher\, for whom the world has been rendered visually incomprehensible as a result of a degenerative neurological disorder. \nRunning for just on an hour\, the opera explores both common preconceptions about dementia-related illnesses and the extraordinary ways one afflicted man and his wife cope.  Nyman’s lyrical score demonstrates all the accessible and appealing qualities that he later also exhibited in his music for Jane Campion’s The PIano (1993). \nFor this production we welcome back three of Australia’s most accomplished operatic performers: Elena Xanthoudakis\, Christopher HIllier\, and Robert Macfarlane\, and a chamber orchestra (including members of the Invictus String Quartet). \nThree performances only\, all in the intimate surrounds of the Athenaeum II Theatre\, 188 Collins St\, Melbourne. \n   Friday 20 March\, 7:30 pm \n   Saturday 21 March\, 5:00 pm \n   Saturday 21 March\, 7:00 pm \nTICKETS: $69 – $49 \nTickets are otherwise available through Ticketmaster: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/michael-nyman-s-the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat-tickets/artist/4163359
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/iopera-michael-nymans-the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat-tickets/2026-03-21/1/
LOCATION:Athenaeum 2
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SUMMARY:IOpera: Michael Nyman's 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat' Tickets
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce that our next production is a 40th Anniversary staging of Michael Nyman‘s operatic adaptation of Oliver Sacks‘ best-seller neurological case study THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT (1986) \nClosely following his story\, the one-hour opera explores the mind of “Dr. P\,” a professional opera singer and music teacher\, for whom the world has been rendered visually incomprehensible as a result of a degenerative neurological disorder. \nRunning for just on an hour\, the opera explores both common preconceptions about dementia-related illnesses and the extraordinary ways one afflicted man and his wife cope.  Nyman’s lyrical score demonstrates all the accessible and appealing qualities that he later also exhibited in his music for Jane Campion’s The PIano (1993). \nFor this production we welcome back three of Australia’s most accomplished operatic performers: Elena Xanthoudakis\, Christopher HIllier\, and Robert Macfarlane\, and a chamber orchestra (including members of the Invictus String Quartet). \nThree performances only\, all in the intimate surrounds of the Athenaeum II Theatre\, 188 Collins St\, Melbourne. \n   Friday 20 March\, 7:30 pm \n   Saturday 21 March\, 5:00 pm \n   Saturday 21 March\, 7:00 pm \nTICKETS: $69 – $49 \nTickets are otherwise available through Ticketmaster: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/michael-nyman-s-the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat-tickets/artist/4163359
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/iopera-michael-nymans-the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat-tickets/2026-03-20/
LOCATION:Athenaeum 2
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SUMMARY:IOpera: A Season of Opera in English -
DESCRIPTION:Gian Carlo Menotti’s wittily satirical and sharp comedy of suburban manners and forbidden desire! \nOriginally written for radio in 1939\, this masterful one-act work has since gone on to be one of the most performed of twentieth century operas\, full of the kinds of dramatic and musical bravura that made Menotti arguably the most successful composer of opera in English of the past century. \nA fast-paced opera buffa\, it cleverly exposes the secret desires of two residents of a small town whose world is unexpectedly turned upside down by the arrival of a handsome stranger. Their once rock-solid concern for social propriety quickly falls away in the presence of this object of desire. But who exactly is he? \nDelivered by a cast of rising operatic talent. \nMiss Todd: Saskia Mascitti\nLaetitia: Teresa Ingrilli\nBob: Nick Beecher\nMiss Pinkerton: Lisette Bolton\nNarrator: Daniel Felton \nStage Director: Lisette Bolton\nConductor: Peter Tregear (18 September) and Christopher Hillier (20 September)\nStage Manager: Maria Woolford \nContent Warnings: This opera includes loud and sudden noises\, partial nudity as well as light sexual references. \nThursday\, 18 September 7.30pm\nSaturday\, 20 September 1.30pm \nAthenaeum 2 \nTICKETS: $69 – $29 \n\nBook tickets
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/iopera-a-season-of-opera-in-english/2025-09-20/
LOCATION:Athenaeum 2
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SUMMARY:IOpera: A Season of Opera in English -
DESCRIPTION:Gian Carlo Menotti’s wittily satirical and sharp comedy of suburban manners and forbidden desire! \nOriginally written for radio in 1939\, this masterful one-act work has since gone on to be one of the most performed of twentieth century operas\, full of the kinds of dramatic and musical bravura that made Menotti arguably the most successful composer of opera in English of the past century. \nA fast-paced opera buffa\, it cleverly exposes the secret desires of two residents of a small town whose world is unexpectedly turned upside down by the arrival of a handsome stranger. Their once rock-solid concern for social propriety quickly falls away in the presence of this object of desire. But who exactly is he? \nDelivered by a cast of rising operatic talent. \nMiss Todd: Saskia Mascitti\nLaetitia: Teresa Ingrilli\nBob: Nick Beecher\nMiss Pinkerton: Lisette Bolton\nNarrator: Daniel Felton \nStage Director: Lisette Bolton\nConductor: Peter Tregear (18 September) and Christopher Hillier (20 September)\nStage Manager: Maria Woolford \nContent Warnings: This opera includes loud and sudden noises\, partial nudity as well as light sexual references. \nThursday\, 18 September 7.30pm\nSaturday\, 20 September 1.30pm \nAthenaeum 2 \nTICKETS: $69 – $29 \n\nBook tickets
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/iopera-a-season-of-opera-in-english/2025-09-18/
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