Given the moderate resources available to support jazz and improvised music in this country any cross-border movement of artists and ensembles is welcome. Interest is further amplified when the group heading north of the Murray River is of “big band” …
TOSCA is a tour de force opera, delivering sweeping, lush orchestration and intense drama.
Puccini’s melodrama thrusts a volatile opera diva, a sadistic, lustful yet sophisticated head of police, and an idealistic artist to collide head on.
Audiences often find …
A musical based on serial killings? Well there’s Sweeney Todd. But that was a highly stylised Broadway number, a Gothic thriller. LONDON ROAD is a musical of a very different stripe,…
I see up to six shows a week and while it’s rare to find a dud on the Sydney theatre scene, it’s just as rare to have an experience that is so odd and wonderful that I almost don’t want …
The program notes refer to this quote from George Bernard Shaw:- “It is by jingling the bells of a jester’s cap that I have made people listen to me…All genuine intellectual work is humorous.”
With ARMS AND THE MAN (1894) …
