Katherine Sonnekus

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

the australian ballet in the dream / marguerite and armand : a double bill to savour

Lynne Lancaster / 18 November 2023

The Australian Ballet are currently performing two major Ashton works as part of its 2023 season.

MARGUERITE AND ARMAND is intimate, powerful and passionate. THE DREAM is a far more traditional work.

For the first work, the curtain opens to …