Touring Australia

Opera and rugby league have a lot in common, especially in Queensland. Just as the sport draws on grassroots supporters and talent across the state to unite fans and nurture the next generation of playmakers, so too does the state’s opera company.

WASO is hitting the road this month with a touring party of over 70 musicians to share a complete live symphony orchestra experience in Esperance and Albany.

Throughout the company’s history Opera Australia has committed to taking their productions far and wide. Since 1996 OA has toured to 120 different locations across metropolitan and regional Australia.

Queensland Symphony Orchestra musicians will travel to Roma, Miles and Chinchilla meeting the community, work-shopping with students and teachers and playing great music in October.

The Australian Ballet’s free outdoor gala event Ballet Under the Stars will visit the Latrobe Valley for the first time, staging a full-length performance of the much-loved classic Giselle.

Wyniss bring traditional song, dance and games to Perth kids with Musica Viva In Schools.

Musica Viva Australia have premiered three new ensembles to inspire, educate and deliver joy to students and teachers in classrooms throughout Australian in 2019.

Toowoomba’s reputation as the Darling Downs cultural capital has been further enhanced with the return of the world-renowned Australian Brandenburg Orchestra for a fifth year, this time celebrating 30 years of Baroque.

OUR VOICES is a collaborative, community based project that will take place over a 6 week period suitable for teachers, choir leaders and singers alike.

WASO is hitting the road this October and November with a touring party of over 70 musicians to share a complete live symphony orchestra experience in Esperance and Albany.

Over 50 Sydney Symphony Orchestra musicians will embark on its annual Regional New South Wales Tour, performing in Port Macquarie, Taree and Newcastle.

MTC Education hits the road this month with a regional tour in Victoria and Tasmania of The Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You with the support of Crown Resorts Foundation
and the Packer Family Foundation.

Opera Australia, Opera Queensland, State Opera South Australia and the West Australian Opera have joined forces, under the Opera Conference banner, to produce the first major revival of the hit musical Bran Nue Dae, opening in Sydney in January 2020 and touring to Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.

Musica Viva will present a diverse range of music programs and initiatives amking the city of Orange in central-western NSW a music hub thanks to the support of two local music trusts, dedicated to the Orange region.

Audiences in country New South Wales and Western Australia will experience world-class music and dance as the Brandenburg Ensemble and West Australian Ballet take their magic to the regions.

As Bangarra Dance Theatre embarks on its regional tour of the 2017 landmark production Bennelong, it also marks the start of a new partnership that will bring more world-class performances to Bendigo’s Ulumbarra Theatre.

Two Queensland schools will immerse themselves in music this month thanks to Arrow Energy. Wallumbilla State School in the Maranoa Region and Dysart State School in the Isaac Region will each spend four days with composer and educator Nicole Murphy in an intensive Musica Viva In Schools residency – a rare opportunity for students and teachers to work closely with a professional musician.

After a triumphant national tour in 2017, a return sellout season at Adelaide Festival and six Helpmann Award wins, Bangarra take Bennelong to regional Australia in 2019.

Malthouse Theatre has just wrapped up a regional tour of Atomic, the 5th Suitcase Series play, by Amelia Chandos Evans. The programme visited Bendigo, Geelong and Wangaratta.

For the first time in its history, State Theatre Company South Australia will host a world premiere in regional Port Pirie before bringing the season to Adelaide.

Queensland Symphony Orchestra returns to Chinchilla, Miles and Roma as part of the CMR Initiative, an innovative partnership between Australia Pacific LNG operated by Origin and the Orchestra that delivers quality musical education and concert experiences to the people of the Western Downs and Maranoa Regions.

Opera Queensland's two major regional tours and a large scale tour to remote Qld coming up in November made possible by their long standing partnership with the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation (TFFF).

Opera Australia enables children all across Australia to take the first steps on their own special journeys with opera, through our Regional Children’s Chorus and Regional Student Scholarship programs.

Gongs and drums will resound in Albany and Esperance in the coming weeks as Makukuhan takes its mini-Gamelan orchestra to some of the most remote schools in Western Australia.

An analysis of MPA activity over the past six years confirms that the MPAs have played a central role in the development of the performing arts in Australia, as major employers in the sector, as presenters of outstanding work, and as arts educators.

The Orchestra’s revised 5 year Strategic Plan has a renewed commitment to being an orchestra for the entire State of Victoria, accompanied by a revitalised regional touring strategy.

​At the end of a dusty 30 kilometre driveway in the Northern Territory you can find Tipperary Station School. There are only 6 students, but when Musica Viva’s Gypsy Tober visited in August, they were greeted by students from 5 local schools - one of which had driven over 2 and a half hours to visit!

In a history-making first, Queensland Symphony Orchestra performed under the stars in Gladstone last month, conducted by internationally famed Music Director Alondra de la Parrawith the support of Australia Pacific LNG and Gladstone Regional Council.

​Sydney Dance Company’s teaching artists are currently on the road as part of the regional tour of Rafael Bonachela’s ab [Intra]. Each year the teaching artist team tours Australia to bring dance to communities and schools in regional areas.

Musica Viva in Schools (MVIS) aim to bring quality music education to as many students in Australia as it can. Last month, the popular band Zeeko transported their catchy vibe to students from Alice Springs to Croker Island thanks to the generous support of the Northern Territory Department of Education and a private donor.

This Black Swan production which enjoyed sell out World Premiere seasons in both Albany and Perth in 2017, is set to tour to regional WA in April and May, this year.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has been touring for almost as long as it has been alive and will this year celebrate 80 years of touring regional New South Wales when it goes back to where it all began: Wollongong.

There hasn’t been a locally-based music teacher in the Cunnamulla region for a number of years, but in October music was the focus for many students. Workshops with school students from Cunnamulla, Eulo and Charleville took place in Cunnamulla from 17 to 20 October 2017.

​The Australian Ballet's regional tour of quintessential classical ballet Giselle is heading into NSW.

The Select Committee on Regional Development and Decentralisation’s inquiry will explore ways to increase the growth and prosperity of regional and rural Australia. AMPAG and RAA outline the role of the arts.

OperaQ’s A Night with Opera Queensland a new, expansive regional tour is offering something unique to 12 regional communities, with a special all-star show blending moments of shining operatic splendour with theatricality, backstage humour and showbiz sass, all performed at close range in some of Queensland’s most unique venues.

A number of exciting productions are preparing to head out on regional tours shortly.

After Bangarra's successful season of Bennelong in Canberra the dance ensemble fly to Thursday Island in the Torres Strait this month for their annual on Country residency.

It’s no surprise that regional touring is deeply embedded in the DNA of Sydney Dance Company, Circus Oz, Bangarra and Bell Shakespeare; that Musica Viva has deep connections with regional schools in addition to their regional performances; or that the ACO Collective (formerly known as ACO2) delivers regional touring and education programs Australia-wide. But are you aware of just how much is happening in the further flung regions of our country?

This acclaimed and powerful celebration of Indigenous survival tours Australia until 17 June, before heading to London for the Origins Festival.

​Promising young musicians from Western New South Wales will get a glimpse in to the world of a professional symphony orchestra when the SSO takes its prestigious Playerlink program to Orange.

Five Sydney Symphony Orchestra musicians perform in red rock amphitheatre.

Original work created with local artists celebrates community and stories around Tumbulgum Hall

In 2015 the MPAs increased their nationwide direct reach across three key areas.

The winner of this year’s Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work, Queensland Theatre Company’s Ladies in Black, will tour nationally in early 2017, taking in Sydney and Canberra with encore seasons in Brisbane and Melbourne.

Belvoir has had a busy June with more dates coming up in the next few months around the globe with Thyestes, The Wild Duck, Conversation Piece and Stories I Want to Tell You in Person.

​AMPAG’s members try to ensure that no matter where you live in Australia you can experience the best talent and productions this country has to offer.