Belgian pianist and composer Daniel Verstappen returns to the Sydney Opera House on May 2 (7pm) for a one-night performance that brings together classical piano, film music and original composition.
Verstappen has developed a distinctive voice that draws on the …
Opera Australia has dug into the library and revived its 2014 production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin by Danish Director Kasper Holten. Holten showed early promise in his career and, at the age of 27 was appointed the youngest Artistic …
This concert on March 10, 2026, featuring Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 5, was part of a new concept, utilising a different format to the SSO’s usual concerts. This was the “Listen To This” series which, I understood, would be “part-performance, part-guided …
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 …
Five stars
The Sydney Opera House Concert Hall was packed on Wednesday night, including all the choir seats, for the opening of Emirates Masters Series with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra – Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony – Intoxicating Melodies. From the viola …
This latest concert by Willoughby Symphony was performed and filmed in August at the Concourse with a very reduced audience and Orchestra because of Covid. Social distancing was enforced.
It was energetically and enthusiastically conducted by Dr Nicholas Milton with …
The Australian Ballet are currently at the Sydney Opera House presenting Peter Wright’s 1990 Birmingham Royal Ballet version, which has been in the repertoire since 2007. It is a different version to the Royal Ballet one by Wright, filmed for …
ACO: TOGNETTI TCHAIKOVSKY BRAHMS
This is a vibrant , electrifying concert that was superbly played and had the packed audience bursting with enthusiasm. The work of two masters was paired with that of two female composers born in 1980 and …
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 – …
In this huge production by the Royal Ballet the dancing is superb, especially by the two leads. It has an extremely ‘traditional’ feel about it and is a 2006 attempt to reconstruct the famous 1946 Oliver Messell production that reopened …