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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 …
The first film from the French Film Festival to be given wide release, JEANNE DU BARRY is a classic costume drama of grand scale.
Selected as the Opening Night Gala screening of last year’s Cannes Film Festival, JEANNE DU BARRY, …
The story of Carmen is most commonly recognised as one of the most popular classical operas in the world. Bizet based his 1875 opera on a novella written by Prosper Mérimée 30 years before. The plot is action packed filled …
It was a full house in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House last night as far forward as the boxes at the sides of the stage. Many young faces were spotted in the audience, which is lovely to …
Above: Trumpeter Will Gilbert and bassist Elsen Price joined composer and flautist Keyna Wilkins for this hour-long set. Featured image: (l-r): Keyna Wilkins, Will Gilbert and Elsen Price perform the improvised work with NASA footage and sound material, ‘Solar Flare’. …
“Too bad you’re a woman, you’d have made an excellent man” says New York Mayor Gould to Italian immigrant nun, Francesca Cabrini, after she had politically outmanoeuvred him.
Such is the breathtaking misogyny and chauvinism as well as …
Consent. A mine field or just being mindful?
Molly Manning Walker’s assured and accomplished feature film debut HOW TO HAVE SEX might have easily been called How Not to Have Sex.
The film depicts a schoolies week when a group …
Above: Members of the SSO cello and bass sections performing in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. Photo credit: Image courtesy of Sydney Symphony orchestra. Photo by Jay Patel. Featured image: SSO Chief Conductor Simone Young. Photo credit: Jaimi Joy.…
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra are well known for their collaborations with artists of other disciplines. With the chaos of the past few years, many showbiz projects around the world were put on the shelf for a better day. One of the …
SHORT AND SWEET SYDNEY THEATRE FESTIVAL – 2024 WEEK ONE @ TURNER HALL THEATRE
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15th-18th February 2024
The world’s biggest short play festival is back in Sydney.
Revitalized and bold festival, headed by the new …