Annabelle Drumm grew up in a theatre family attending opera and concert rehearsals in the womb with a conductor/musician father and a violinist mother. In her own career, she has worked out front and behind the scenes of Arts, Media and Entertainment. This included being a professional Performing Artist for 9 years, Artistic Director of a Dance Company for 6 years and Founder of a Performing Artists Booking Agency 15 years representing Artists from Australia and New Zealand to an international audience.
She spent 10 years as a Creative Business Coach and was selected as an inaugural member of the Arts and Culture Advisory panel to the Inner West Council.
Annabelle served as a Breakfast Radio Host for 2MBS Fine Music 102.5FM for 7 years, selected as Anchor Host for the station’s “Live from the Joan” simulcast and has provided Musicology talks at The Concourse and Sydney Opera House.
She is passionate about supporting the Performing Arts in Australia offering her expertise with the goal of raising standards and growing live audience numbers.
Sydney Opera House is currently celebrating its 50th Anniversary and, to add to the festivities, Opera Australia offered a concert version of La Gioconda by Ponchielli last night (9 August 2023). It was a superb cast of mostly international performers …
The famous “Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour” Otherwise known as “Barcarolle” from the Giulietta Act of the Tales of Hoffmann sung by Anna Netrebko and Elina Garanca.
Sydney Opera House hosted the world premiere of Opera Australia’s The Tales of …
4 ½ stars
Sydney had an unexpected treat last night when the Australian Haydn Ensemble presented a unique program of rarely heard music. Titled “Die Stille Nacht” the crowd were expecting a fairly predictable line-up of well known Baroque pieces. …
Opera Australia launched their 2023 season of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto last night at the Sydney Opera House Joan Sutherland Theatre to a good size crowd. Verdi set the opera based around Victor Hugo’s highly controversial play “Le roi s’amuse” or …
Sydney city was abuzz last night. Thousands of visitors flooded the streets to attend the Vivid Festival featuring artistic lighting displays all around the city, across the Harbour Bridge and around Circular Quay. Not to be put off by the …
Sydney’s City Recital Hall hosted the opening night to a fresh opera production from Pinchgut Opera last night. The opera is “Giustino” (pronounced Joo-STEEN-orh) by Giovanni Legrenzi. Have you heard of Legrenzi before? Maybe not. Yet, through the late 1600’s …
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs attracted a full house at the Concert Hall of Sydney Opera House once again, this time for a Saturday Matinee of Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem”. The Choir’s programming choices have proven very successful this year with their …
4 ½ stars
It was another busy night at the Sydney Opera House last night. The Concert Hall boasted a full house including 600 secondary school students attending to see Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing with one of the world’s best …
The coronation mattered not to the thousands of people who flocked to the Sydney Opera House on Saturday 6 May 2023. The House was stretched to the limit with the Australian Ballet continuing their season of the magnificent “Jewels” by …
It’s been a very long time since I’ve attended a performance that was literally breathtaking. The thrill of feeling the body fill up with high vibration tingling, the eyes starting to stream, the grin like a Cheshire Cat and then …