It’s no secret that opera has death nailed and on September 8, Opera Queensland presents Songs to Die for at HOTA to showcase just that. At the heart of some of opera’s greatest moments, you’ll find a knife, bullet or poison paired with some of the most sublime music ever written. For 400 years, death has inspired iconic composers and beclouded modern legends, including Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse and Janis Joplin, whose songs speak as passionately to us as the music of their operatic counterparts.

Songs to Die for is a cheeky nod to the over-dramatised deaths of opera’s leading characters masterfully entwined with pop classics. Presented by three of Opera Queensland’s leading artists, Songs to Die for is a celebration of the end brought to vivid life in a night where Don Giovanni meets ‘Highway to Hell’.

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