As we near the end of the 2025 season for Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the countdown is on for their followers to squeeze as many of the few remaining concerts as possible into the diary. The orchestra did not play …
Above and featured: Lime Cordiale gave a joyous, layered performance with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Images: Jordan Munns.
If you haven’t been to the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall when it lets its hair down to party, then make sure …
Above: Award-winning comedian AJ Lamarque concluded his touring of Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne with a show at The Vanguard, Newtown, which was recorded live.
A show advertised as a Gay Cruising 101 could cause a strong swell even in our …
Above: Electric viola da gambist, Jenny Eriksson, who compose the ‘Swirling Flame’ suite on this album and curated the album’s elements.
A ‘swirling flame’ conjures up timeless imagery that illuminates a dark night, aburns bedside during recovery, brightens a path …
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The City Recital Hall was crammed to the rafters last night. The crowd were keen to see the much anticipated opening to the tour “Cocteau’s Circle” with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Based around the …
Above: ‘Open Horizons’ is a recording of the complete piano music to date by Keyna Wilkins, pictured.
So what happens when you are Keyna Wilkins – multi instrumentalist, cultural collaborator, busy teacher and composer and you need to choose a …
Above: Bosch’s triptych, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ was the launching pad for this programme by Luminescence Chamber Singers. Featured image: members of Luminescence Chamber Singers. Image: Creswick Collective.
It is a rewarding, delightful and rich experiential garden to be …
We are invited to bear witness to an age-old story — and embedded within it is a tale of storytelling itself, of culture from the world’s oldest living continuous tradition, so profoundly challenged in the early days of colonial invasion. …
Gender, identity, conflict, oppression, expression, the workplace, the queer niteclub, K-Pop, Asian drama, life drama, domesticity, marriage, ambition, cooking, love, lust, political correctness, happiness, angst, binary, non-binary, fear and nonchalance.
These ingredients of our modern or post-modern, apparently comfortable global …
For up and coming young singers, particularly those studying opera, the path to a professional career may seem to be extremely narrow and fraught with challenges. In Europe, there is ample population for audiences and many tertiary courses / tutors …