Imagine Handa Opera on Sydney harbour but shorter (just an hour), with a real-life ship instead of a stage – and free. Sydney festival is set to give Opera Australia’s hugely popular outdoor series a run for its money this month, with its own alfresco opera – out on the waters of Darling Harbour.
The berth for this spectacle is the foreshore outside the Australian National Maritime Museum, where the museum’s 22-metre, century-old lightship Carpentaria will be on not-so-active duty as a stage, with the orchestra playing on a barge moored nearby.
