BIG Live's Dracula lands in Melbourne for a strictly limited season, fresh from London's West End and a record-breaking Australian tour.
The count is coming for Melbourne, and Dracula is bringing fresh blood to Her Majesty’s Theatre in September.
Choreographed by Joel Burke, this Dracula is a cinematic reworking of Bram Stoker’s gothic novel that swaps tutus and restraint for visceral physicality and dark romance. Presented by BIG Live in association with United Airlines, it returns to Her Majesty’s Theatre fresh from a sold-out London West End run and a record-breaking tour across Australia and New Zealand in 2025.
Dracula
- Her Majesty’s Theatre, 219 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
- 10 – 25 September 2026
- Running time: two hours, including a 20-minute interval
- Tickets available through Ticketek
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The score is a patchwork of classical heavyweights, lifting pieces from Bach, Rachmaninov, Mozart, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns and Debussy. Threading through all of it is an original composition from Emmy Award-winning composer Jason Fernandez, while acclaimed set design by CTS builds the shadowy castle that swallows the stage. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketek.
Burke stacks the company with dancers who have passed through the Mariinsky, English National Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and The Australian Ballet, then builds the choreography around them. Think enormous lifts, a body count that climbs toward the finale, and physical drama pitched far closer to cinema than to a traditional recital.
At its core the story keeps the familiar shape of forbidden love, immortality and sacrifice, run through Burke’s darker, more sensual reading of Stoker. The Melbourne season stretches for just over two weeks before the production continues a wider 2026 international run that also carries Dracula to Edinburgh, London and San Francisco.
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