“Meet Fiona Campbell” says the media release. “Venus in voice and form” (Opera-Opera). This mezzo–soprano could have been created by Botticelli – cascading tresses and a goddess gown. Over the page, a complete contrast as she stands arms akimbo. The manicured nails and chandelier earrings prevail, yet the hair is tied back, and Campbell wears a mannish shirt and…
May 1787 , and the First Fleet is ready to sail from England. Richard Morgan’s safe and respectable middle-class existence is shattered. He may as well be crossing into Hades as he endures the ocean journey to the colony of New South Wales. Colleen McCullough’s tale of Richard Morgan in her novel “Morgan’s Run“, has been transformed…
Two powerful images from the events of Good Friday at Calvary, are brought together in music on Good Friday, 22nd April when Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is performed alongside Stainers’ Crucifixion, at St Stephen’s Church, in Macquarie Street, Sydney. Pergolesi’s work paints the grieving mother whilst Stainer’s depicts the object of her grief – the crucifixion death of her Son. In fact,…