Category: Reviews

Pianist Hélène Grimaud’s recent recording Water, is an intensely pleasurable album which, at one level is a purely visceral experience which beckons…

From a seemingly inexhaustible repository of Baroque arias comes a collection from Decca, entitled Baroque Divas. The recording celebrates the beauty (or…

Beautiful Boccherini –  Australian Haydn Ensemble with Sara Macliver, soprano Skye McIntosh (Artistic Director & violin)/ Simone Slattery (violin)/ James Eccles (viola)/ Anthony Albrecht (cello)/ Jacqueline Dosser (double…

The Seraphim Trio: Anna Goldsworthy, piano/ Helen Ayers, violin/ Timothy Nankervis, cello The Seraphim Trio’s new recording of three Beethoven piano trios is a…

With her recent CD release Pleasure Garden, recorder virtuosa Genevieve Lacey invites us to explore the sounds of nature, that from the…

Kudos to Michael Gow and Musica Viva with Victorian Opera for their creation Voyage to the Moon, a Baroque pastiche with libretto…

It is well worth getting to the Joan Sutherland Theatre a little ahead of the performance of Verdi’s Luisa Miller to contemplate…

The Barber of Seville –  Gioachino Rossini Opera Australia, 28 January 2016 Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House. Elijah Moshinsky’s 1995 production…

Hot on the heels of her successful debut at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, late in 2015 and several lauded roles for…

The Pearlfishers – George Bizet Opera Australia, January 15, 2016 Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House Don’t blame Bizet. Though he travelled…