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.
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra conducted by Paul Dyer delivered a powerful performance of Mozart’s glorious Mass in C minor, K 427, ‘The Great’. Soloists Sara Macliver and Fiona Campbell were well matched and outstanding. Read Peter McCallum’s reviewin the Sydney Morning Herald and Murray Black’s review in The Australian The performance is repeated Friday May 10th, Saturday May 11th, Wednesday…
Prancer & Vixen: The Strange Bedfellows Leadbelly, Newtown 23 December, 2018 Written by Deen Hamaker This was not a standard Christmas show! With sarcastic tongues firmly stuck in cheeks, Jacqueline Dark as Vixen and Kanen Breen as Prancer, with their elf, Musical Director Daryl Wallis, providing excellent support, took us on a dark, sardonic journey,…
Apollo’s Gift: Music and the Mind, Twilight Musical Dialogues, Musical Luminati Adamstown Uniting Church, 2 March, 2018 At an intimate, classical soirée, a model human skeleton, electrodes and computer avatars perhaps do not comprise the typical paraphernalia for such an event. Yet, the first of the Musical Luminati series, Apollo’s Gift: Music and the Mind,…
‘Collusion’ The Marais Project: Jenny Eriksson with Susie Bishop, Emily-Rose Šárkova and Eliska Sarka Recital Hall West, Sydney Conservatorium 24 August 2014. 2014 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Marais Project and their director Jennifer Eriksson has adopted a theme of Re-imaginings which she explains is ‘taking the opportunity to re-imagine my instrument, the viola da…
The Pearlfishers – George Bizet Opera Australia, January 15, 2016 Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House Don’t blame Bizet. Though he travelled extensively through Italy for three years from 1857, this was about as far east as the Frenchman ventured, and so his opera The Pearlfishers, written in the summer of 1863, when he was…
I cannot recall a more highly anticipated performance. Jonas Kaufmann, demigod of the opera world was about take to the stage of the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, making his debut in the title role of Verdi’s Otello. And I was in the stalls. There was a sense of disbelief to the occasion. After a…