[2] In 2007 the company began performing at the BMW Edge, a 450-seat indoor amphitheatre located in Federation Square.
Initially the company made its home at the National Theatre, the Comedy Theatre and later at the Melbourne Athenaeum, and featured Suzanne Steele, Ronald Dowd, Margaret Nisbett, Maureen Howard, and Ron Stevens in productions of La bohème, Faust, Carmen, Pagliacci, Cavalleria rusticana, Madama Butterfly, The Merry Widow, Die Fledermaus, The Student Prince, and many others.
The 2007 season began with productions of Verdi's Il corsaro, Attila and The Pavarotti Story, devised and narrated by director Joseph Talia and conducted by Erich Fackert.
This program was an analysis of how Puccini's personal characteristics impacted on the creation of his characters and the composition of his music.
In March 2018, Melbourne CitiOpera presented the Australian premiere performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Kashchey the Immortal, conducted by Alan Cook.