An afternoon of wondering romance. This symphony performance was one of the most invigorating I have seen yet.
Simone Young, one of the world’s leading opera conductors and celebrated orchestra conductors, is given an uplifting applause welcoming her …
The individual elements in this landmark production are tremendous but I found the performance dark , somewhat disturbing and perhaps a bit fragmented and disjointed ( which , I understand , is at least partly what the ACO intended ).…
Featured image – Guest violinist Pekka Kuusisto.
This was not your standard Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) concert, but as always it featured absolutely superb playing by the ACO who were in inspired form and dynamically led by the charismatic, …
Czech composer, musical theorist and folklorist Leos Janácek’s (1854-1928) THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN, first performed in 1924, features a huge, lush, romantic score.
This work tells the story of a beautiful, glorious vixen and the Forester who tries to tame …