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Sydney had an unexpected treat last night when the Australian Haydn Ensemble presented a unique program of rarely heard music. Titled “Die Stille Nacht” the crowd were expecting a fairly predictable line-up of well known Baroque pieces. …
Opera Australia launched their 2023 season of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto last night at the Sydney Opera House Joan Sutherland Theatre to a good size crowd. Verdi set the opera based around Victor Hugo’s highly controversial play “Le roi s’amuse” or …
Sydney city was abuzz last night. Thousands of visitors flooded the streets to attend the Vivid Festival featuring artistic lighting displays all around the city, across the Harbour Bridge and around Circular Quay. Not to be put off by the …
Sydney’s City Recital Hall hosted the opening night to a fresh opera production from Pinchgut Opera last night. The opera is “Giustino” (pronounced Joo-STEEN-orh) by Giovanni Legrenzi. Have you heard of Legrenzi before? Maybe not. Yet, through the late 1600’s …
4 ½ stars
It was another busy night at the Sydney Opera House last night. The Concert Hall boasted a full house including 600 secondary school students attending to see Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing with one of the world’s best …
It’s been a very long time since I’ve attended a performance that was literally breathtaking. The thrill of feeling the body fill up with high vibration tingling, the eyes starting to stream, the grin like a Cheshire Cat and then …
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As first concert for the year, Pinchgut Opera presented a popular and frequently recorded sacred work “Membra Jesu Nostri” by Dietrich Buxtehude. Written in the late 1600s this is the largest work so far discovered by Buxtehude and …
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The Concert Hall at Sydney Opera House was packed tonight around all four walls with a mix of subscribers, tourists from the 3 cruise ships in town and groups of high school students. A lovely light program assured …