Review: Zubin Mehta, AWO & Richard Strauss (Australian World Orchestra)
Led by Zubin Mehta, this joyous concert reminds us how important it is to celebrate our world-class artists abroad, and to welcome them with open arms when they return.
Led by Zubin Mehta, this joyous concert reminds us how important it is to celebrate our world-class artists abroad, and to welcome them with open arms when they return.
Elena Kats-Chernin's first opera casts a welcome light on Ovid's mythic representation of same-sex attraction, but this revival would have been better served by a less-is-more approach.
Sarah Giles' production is very successful in bringing a fresh perspective to such a well-known work.
Helena Dix dazzles in this bel canto rarity, given a clever House of Gucci makeover.
It feels fitting The Phantom of the Opera should haunt the Sydney Opera House – and this new version of the iconic musical has plenty of thrills.
Conducted by Benjamin Northey, this evocative program of film soundtracks by Westlake, Korngold and Strauss proves beyond a doubt the need for music in one's life.
A story and a production that distresses and discomforts, enrages and subdues. Prepare to ache and then reflect long afterwards.
This Mozart showcase with Neal Peres Da Costa and members of the Young Mannheim Symphonists was a masterful and exuberant snapshot of the composer's oeuvre.
From the jubilant opening of Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila Overture to the majesty of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, this was the TSO at its finest.
The Australian soprano's long-delayed home tour was worth the wait.
This musical program of mixed works had its moments but lacked the essential ingredients for a genuinely magical celebration.
Conductor Asher Fisch led more like a general heedless of his own safety in this magnificent reading of one of the 20th century’s most profound compositions.
Cool, charming and charismatic, Chen dazzles with his fourth Strad.