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La Stupenda: Dame Joan Sutherland

This segment from the Film Australia documentary La Stupenda shows opera soprano Dame Joan Sutherland performing and at home in Sydney.

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Sydney Opera House: first opera performance

This silent three-minute compilation of Eyewitness News footage shows dignitaries arriving at the formal opening of the Sydney Opera House by Queen Elizabeth II on 20 October 1973.

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Dame Nellie Melba at Coombe Cottage, November 1927 – full clip

Private footage of Australia’s ‘Queen of Song’ relaxing with her family at Coombe Cottage, her outer Melbourne residence in 1927.

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Thoroughly Modern Melba: lost footage revealed

In celebration of the 160th anniversary of Dame Nellie Melba’s birth, we reveal previously unseen private footage of Australia’s ‘Queen of Song’.

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Dame Nellie Melba at Coombe Cootage

Private footage of Australia’s ‘Queen of Song’ relaxing with her family at Coombe Cottage, her outer Melbourne residence in 1927.

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Australian Biography: Dame Joan Hammond

One of Australia's great opera stars of the two decades following the Second World War was Joan Hammond (1912–1996).

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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert meets La Traviata

After a drunken night at a pub in Broken Hill, the three drag artists – Mitzi (Hugo Weaving), Felicia (Guy Pearce) and Bernadette (Terence Stamp) – awake to find their bus defaced with a homophobic

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Nausicaa: Opera in Three Acts by Peggy Glanville-Hicks

Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990) was an Australian composer with an accomplished overseas career.

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Sounds of Australia 2020

Ten sound recordings with cultural, historical and aesthetic significance have been added to Sounds of Australia for 2020. 

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'An operatic experience'

Yolngu ceremony with its combination of sets, props, painting of the body, dance and singing is likened to an operatic experience by anthropologist Professor Howard Morphy.