Review: Ravel’s Piano Concerto (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
If ever there was a program to show off the vastly improved acoustic at the SOH Concert Hall, it was this superb concert, featuring French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
If ever there was a program to show off the vastly improved acoustic at the SOH Concert Hall, it was this superb concert, featuring French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
The winner of the 2021 Sydney International Piano Competition takes the audience by storm in the Melbourne recital that begins his wide-reaching national tour.
With music by Australian composers including Corrina Bonshek, Anne Cawrse, Gambirra Illume, David John Lang and Chris Williams, this concert was the perfect way to mark World Migratory Bird Day.
Kind of Light is perhaps yet to hit its stride, but this evening of experimental music was still a great night out and an exciting sign of things to come.
This 70th-anniversary production, directed by Robyn Nevin, respects the period and style of the play, and has been exceptionally well cast. Old-fashioned it may be, but it's highly entertaining.
After a 20-year absence from our stages, John Cranko’s classic still packs an emotional punch, showcasing its principal dancers to Sergei Prokofiev’s monumental score.
Under Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen, WASO delivers a riveting Sibelius, some terrific Wagner and an evocative world premiere by Elena Kats-Chernin.
Four decades since its premiere, Larry Kramer's pioneering play is still beating strong in this powerful revival directed by Dean Bryant.
Two recent chamber operas exploring difficult subjects make their Australian premieres.
Drawing upon his instincts as a composing musician, the Finnish piano virtuoso gives a masterful reading of Beethoven and Bach at Adelaide's UKARIA Cultural Centre.
This terrific, newly commissioned opera for children by Emma Jayakumar shows how far WA Opera has travelled in recent years under Artistic Director Chris van Tuinen.
Despite exquisite vocal and musical performances, this staging of Benjamin Britten's Canticles is less than the sum of its otherwise beautiful parts, landing somewhere between performance art and oratorio.
The vivacious concert brought together many of Sydney's leading percussionists in a program that celebrated successive generations of Synergy, Taikoz and their offshoots.