ACO/Upshaw Review
Read the review of this Sydney concert from The Australian which featured the 2014 Grammy Award winning team of Dawn Upshaw and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Read the review of this Sydney concert from The Australian which featured the 2014 Grammy Award winning team of Dawn Upshaw and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Among his many virtues as a composer, Giacomo Puccini was above all, a master of contrast – musical, dramatic and ultimately emotional. He combined musical genius with an incisive theatrical instinct to create operas full of thrilling grandiosity and gripping intimacy, often within minutes of each other. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
Two European film festival in Sydney last week saw the screening of two riveting movies about opera icons Luciano Pavarotti and Maria Callas. Pavarotti, directed by Ron “Happy Days” Howard is a 2019 documentary, shown as part of the Italian Film Festival, brimming with personal comments from Pavarotti, his first wide Adua and three adult…
The Art of Violin, presented by Bach Akademie Australia in its debut performance in the Utzon Room of the Sydney Opera House, was a riveting exploration of the art of the Baroque violin at the end of the 17th century.
Spartacus The Australian Ballet Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House 10 November, 2018 Written by Deen Hamaker Spartacus is perhaps the ultimate Soviet ballet, a spectacle of bravura dancing and athleticism, characterised by muscular gladiators and Roman soldiers executing stunning leaps and jumps. It is about as far from the romantic ‘white’ ballets as one…
‘The hallmarks of excellence from beginning to end” says the Sydney Morning Herald’s reviewer, David Vance. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/aural-delight-from-start-to-finish-20120513-1ykv1.html
The Marais Project: Jennifer Eriksson (director and viola da gamba), Belinda Montgomery (soprano), Tommie Andersson (lutes) Elysian Fields: Matt Keegan (saxophones), Matt McMahon (piano), Jennifer Eriksson (electric viola da gamba), Siebe Pogson (bass), Finn Ryan (percussion) 29 January, The Independent Theatre, North Sydney Jennifer Eriksson continually seeks to provide new perspectives on old music…