Jonathan Lo

BAROQUE RESPLENDENT: THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET PRESENTS THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

Elizabeth Surbey / 23 November 2025

Sydney Opera House, 21 November 2025. David McAllister’s decade-old production of The Sleeping Beauty returns, and from the first chord it is clear this is no children’s fairy tale but a glittering allegory of absolutist order. Premiered in 1890 by …

Ballet, Dance

the australian ballet : romeo and juliet

Lynne Lancaster / 6 December 2022

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Full of youthful vibrancy, this production is fresh. It has been in the Australian Ballet repertoire since 1974, though has not been performed for twenty years.

Technically the dancing was superb, and the Orchestra under the baton of …