Sydney Chamber Opera is currently presenting a second offering for the Sydney Festival which familiarises local audiences with the French composer Pascal Dusapin. This time the compelling piece is O MENSCH! (2008) for solo baritone and piano.
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Two people cooking a dessert accompanied by twelve drummers is a left field, intriguing premise for a concert. From it, Roysten Abel has fashioned a warm, winning night’s entertainment.
THE KITCHEN is a wordless drama featuring a couple, Mandakini Goswami …
LONG GRASS tells the story of living rough in Darwin, and mixes traditional Aboriginal mysticism with the harsher realities of indigenous life. The show touches on many issues facing the Aboriginal community there: unemployment, domestic and alcohol abuse, and it …
Debashish Bhattacharya transformed the City Recital Hall into an exotic performance space with his modified slide guitars, Tanmoy Bose’s brilliant percussion and Anandi Bhattacharya’s mesmerizing vocals.
Hawaiian guitars were adapted into Indian classical music in the 1960s. Debashish’s teacher and …
Sydney Festival 2015 hosted another incarnation of So Frenchy, So Chic in the beautiful grounds of St John’s College, Sydney University. There were five sets performed by various French artists in the glorious Sydney sunshine as the audience consumed French …
I’m not much of a crier at public events. Occasionally when something has its basis in how I experience the world I will find myself teary. But seriously, what on earth could I have in common with Ab Solomons, a …
What happens when you collide a world class exponent of the nonverbal with an educated audience of festival goers? If tonight’s performance of TABAC ROUGE is any indicator, there are those who huffily and noisily walk out during the performance …
ENDINGS by Tamara Salwick, presented by Sydney Festival and Performance Space, is an electro-acoustic performance piece that is a meditation on cycles and endings that occur in peoples lives.
Saulwick was first struck by the idea when her three year …
Archie Roach’s concert, CREATION, opened at Sydney Festival’s fabulous The Aurora, a Spiegeltent style construction. It was a pleasure to hear this iconic performer singing and telling his memorable stories in such a stunning location.
Children feature prominently in the …
“Fifty is my first, Nothing is my second, Five just makes my third, My fourth a vowel is reckoned.”
Bring your children to Sydney Opera House to see this world premiere production delivered in a manner that is well beyond …