THE BARBER OF SEVILLE | OPERA AUSTRALIA
4 ½ stars
The Joan Sutherland Theatre had a full house last night for the 2025 opening night of Opera Australia’s “The Barber of Seville” by Rossini. With a big cruise ship birthed at the Circular …
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AUSTRALIAN HAYDN ENSEMBLE | HEAVENLY SOPRANOS – JEWELS OF THE BAROQUE
4 1/2 stars
A big crowd assembled last night at City Recital Hall for the final night of Australian Haydn Ensemble’s “Heavenly Sopranos” tour. The audience were treated to a superb baroque music concert with a program hand picked to …
rinaldo by handel – pinchgut opera
It’s a knock out!
Both circle and stalls were full for the opening night of Pinchgut Opera’s much awaited production of Handel’s Rinaldo in Sydney’s City Recital Hall. Known to be his most celebrated opera, the work features glorious music …
academy of st martin in the field @ sydney opera house
5 stars
It was an unusually eventful visit to the Sydney Opera House last night, 9 October. The Concert Hall stage featured Academy of St Martin in the Fields, one of the world’s top chamber orchestras visiting from the UK. …
sydney symphony – dvorak symphony no. 7
The audience were buzzing last night as they exited the Concert Hall of Sydney Opera House, highly satisfied with lots of wonderful things to say. It was an almost full house with high school students joining the regular crowd and …
victorian state ballet presents the snow queen
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Victorian State Ballet has taken a trip across the border this month visiting Queensland and New South Wales with their production of The Snow Queen based on the tale by Hans Christian Anderson. It’s a harsh tale of …
opera roberto devereux in concert @ sydney opera house
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Opera Australia is presenting the final part to the trilogy of the three Tudor Queen operas by Donizetti at the Sydney Opera House. First was Anna Bolena based around Henry VIII’s second wife; then Maria Stuarda, Mary Queen …
janacek string quartet no. 2 sydney symphony orchestra @ utzon room sydney opera house
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A good sized crowd gathered early for cocktail hour at the Utzon Room in Sydney Opera House. The age range was highly diverse though there were less “suits” of working age in the audience than expected. The …
jonathan biss @ utzon room sydney opera house
This year the Utzon Room at Sydney Opera House has hosted a really wonderful selection of performers for smaller, more intimate concerts. The Utzon Room faces East looking out through floor to ceiling windows over Sydney Harbour, past Woolloomooloo Bay …
sydney philharomonia choirs : glorious puccini
Program
Tarimi Nulay – Long time living here CHEETHAM and DOYLE
Messa di Gloria – PUCCINI
Te Deum, Tre sbirri and Una carrozza from Tosca – PUCCINI
Flower Duet and Humming Chorus – PUCCINI
Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut – PUCCINI…