Milestone Events
- Lisa Gasteen's stage debut (1985)
- Jason Barry-Smith's stage debut in the title role of the Australian premiere of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd (1993)
- World premiere of Seeking True South (2001) by Stephen Leek and Philip Dean
- Kimm Julian's debut in 2003 as Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca
- Created two chamber operas for children: The Sound Garden, and The Song Bird
- A new production of La bohème (2005) directed by Simon Phillips
- Neil Armfield's productions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (2005) and Britten's The Turn of the Screw (2005)
- Kate Miller-Heidke's solo debut (and last opera role) as Flora in The Turn of the Screw
- Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor conducted by Richard Bonynge in 2006
- Jerry Hadley's last stage performance (as Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly (2007)
- The Love of the Nightingale world premiere (2007)
- Cynthia Makris company debut as Abigaille in Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco (2007)
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