by Giacomo Puccini
filmed at a live performance on Sydney Harbour and seen on 15 September 2016
Puccini's final opera (left incomplete at his death) received a spectacular makeover on Sydney Harbour earlier this year under the auspices of Handa Opera. A floating stage on the foreshores of the harbour near Mrs Macquarie's Chair has the Sydney Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and parts of the city skyline as its backdrop, and much technical wizardry to overcome any acoustic difficulties (the singers are, of course, miked for the occasion).
