Pinchgut Opera is Australia’s only company dedicated to Baroque opera and vocal music, with a global reputation as one of the world’s finest companies specialising in historically informed performance. Pinchgut takes rare and often undiscovered masterpieces from the 17th and 18th centuries and re-creates them in the modern frame, giving contemporary relevance to this exquisite music of the past for today’s audiences to enjoy.

We began in 2002 with Handel’s Semele, followed by Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (2003), Monteverdi’s Orfeo (2004), Rameau’s Dardanus (2005), Mozart’s Idomeneo (2006), Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans (2007), Charpentier’s David et Jonathas (2008), Cavalli’s Ormindo (2009), Haydn’s L’anima del filosofo (2010), Vivaldi’s Griselda (2011), Rameau’s Castor et Pollux (2012), Cavalli’s Giasone (2013), Salieri’s The Chimney Sweep and Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride (2014), Vivaldi’s Bajazet and Grétry’s L’Amant jaloux (2015), Haydn’s Armida and Handel’s Theodora (2016), Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea and a Triple Bill of Rameau’s Anacréon and Pigmalion with Vinci’s Erighetta & Don Chilone (2017) and Handel’s Athalia and Hasse’s Artaserse (2018). We’ve also done four wonderful works as fundraisers – Vivaldi’s La Ninfa, Purcell’s Incidental music to Dioclesian, Mozart’s The Impresario and John Lampe’s Pyramus and Thisbe.