*Please note: This event is standing room only. Limited seating is availble via direct booking with venue over the phone.

Direct from London’s West End and trailing rave reviews from across the globe, 26-year-old Australian composer and producer Chloé Charody’s hit circus-opera ‘The Carnival’ opens in Melbourne on May 6 this year.

Every Friday evening in May, Red Bennies, Melbourne will play host to this wild operatic circus where the audience is swept up in a wild carnival of contortion, classical virtuosity, fire & mayhem with the extraordinary risqué classical beauties Ilythian featuring several of Melbourne’s finest circus performers.

Originating from Australia, Ilythian have achieved world wide recognition through their innovative theatrical circus - style presentation of classical music and are quickly paving the path for the future of the genre. Ilythian join the creme of Melbourne’s circus scene to take you on a journey to the chaotic, beautiful and extraordinary world of The Carnival inside a magical Music Box.

Where concert blacks are replaced with glitter and lace, contortionists, musical virtuosos, fire performers & aerial acrobats litter the stage, international theatre producer and composer Chloé Charody is breathing life to a new era in classical music.

Hailed by The Daily Telegraph as “Blooming fantastic... it’s almost frightening to surmise just how good they can be” Charody’s productions are not to be missed.

*Please note: This event is standing room only. Limited seating is availble via direct booking with venue over the phone.

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