‘First Stones’ reviewed
Check out this review of nine new works presented by Halcyon:
Check out this review of nine new works presented by Halcyon:
The best Bach Akademie Australia voices that I have heard in their sound and narrative ability. The instrumentalists as ever were exceptional.
Celebrating Strauss: Richard Gill, a celebration of life Sydney Youth Orchestra Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music 8 December 2018 Written by Deen Hamaker Australia lost one of its foremost champions of music education in Richard Gill AO in October 2018, who for over 40 years was at the forefront of music education in this…
Wilcox proves that as she presses the ‘play’ button on the music of the future, she doesn’t hit the ‘delete’ button on music of the past. She has drawn on it for inspiration, inclusion and elaboration.
Eugene Onegin, Opera in three acts by Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky libretto by Konstantin Shilovksy and Tchaikovsky, after the novel by Alexander Pushkin Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Opera Australia, February 28th 2014. Opera Australia unveiled Kasper Holten’s production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Sydney Opera House last week. It is the first…
As one lothario’s time in Sydney comes to an end, another moves in. The Sydney Theatre company’s production of the Brecht/Weill Threepenny Opera closed over the weekend as Opera Australia’s production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni opened. In many ways the two men, Macheath and Don Giovanni are similar. Murderers, rapists and, unscrupulous seducers whose evil is made…
Karakorum Australian Brandenburg Orchestra 25 July 2018 City Recital Hall, Sydney Written by Deen Hamaker The journey of an itinerant 13th century monk forms the basis of this fascinating syncretic concert that reinterprets the sound world of Medieval Central Asia. Charting William of Rubruck’s journey leaving Constantinople in 1253 across Central Asia to the…