This collaboration by two groups well known to Sydney audiences is a significant one. It breaks down so beautifully many preconceptions of fixed genres, historical sound options and what audiences expect to hear from particular composer’s works.
BROKEN CONSORTS is …
Succumb to Mephistopheles power in this lavish, opulent, thrilling production. Visually stunning, musically glorious, with three superb leading performers, this is a magical highlight of this year’s Opera Australia season.
The Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra under the energetic, dynamic …
This Theatre Des Bouffes Du Nord production combined a quirky Chekhov one act play with classical French comedic theatre techniques along with powerful classical music to bring off a great night’s entertainment.
The quality of the musicianship was superb – …
Ask me about live theatre and I will happily talk your ear off. However, after seeing SWEET CHARITY tonight, Mr Dictionary seems to have deserted me. There are no useful words to describe how much I enjoyed this show. I …
Combining live music, breathtaking body movements, dance, dynamic percussion and songs from the soul of Afro Brazil, BAILA BRAZIL has a contagious, exhilarating energy and rhythm that will have people dancing in the aisles.
The show has been brought to …
“Fifty is my first, Nothing is my second, Five just makes my third, My fourth a vowel is reckoned.”
Bring your children to Sydney Opera House to see this world premiere production delivered in a manner that is well beyond …
Opera Australia is currently revisiting the Metropolitan Opera’s production of THE MAGIC FLUTE, first performed in Sydney in 2014. It is a stunning and simply beautiful illustration of the endurance of opera in a modern guise. Its scenes repeatedly proclaim …
Opera Australia begin their 2015 season yet again with this excellent revival of Gale Edwards’s version of LA BOHEME, originally seen in 2011 .
Romantic and lyrically, passionately performed by cast and orchestra it still feels as fresh as if …
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2014 was a year of amazing diversity, and our twenty accredited specialist reviewers, were all …
Although I saw many wonderful shows and operas in the year, my favourite show of the year was THE ELIXIR OF LOVE at the Opera House.
The production with its Australian setting at the start of WWI, was just hilarious. …