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Opera
Live Review

Review: The Golden Cockerel (Adelaide Festival)

Barrie Kosky’s stupendous onstage cavalcade (featuring performers from Russia and Ukraine) is a masterful meditation on the lunacy that drives civilisations to ruin.

March 5, 2022
Classical Music, Opera
Live Review

Review: Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan (Adelaide Festival)

The standing ovation and tears that greeted the world premiere of this oratorio about an infamous gay-hate crime are testimony for the need for such a work.

March 4, 2022
Chamber, Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Classical Vienna (Melbourne Chamber Orchestra)

Music-making of a high order in a concert featuring Haydn, Mozart, Vanhal and Stefan Cassomenos.

March 4, 2022
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Opening Night (Belvoir)

This stage adaptation of Cassavetes' film is skilfully reimagined, but lacklustre performances counteract the building tension.

March 4, 2022
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Stay Woke (Malthouse Theatre)

A Sri Lankan-Australian playwright drops some awkwardly funny truth bombs.

March 3, 2022
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Orange Thrower (Griffin Theatre Company/National Theatre of Parramatta)

Black is the new orange in this important, though flawed, new play.

March 3, 2022
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Girls & Boys (State Theatre Company South Australia)

Justine Clarke gives an utterly remarkable performance in this heart-rending one-woman play.

March 2, 2022
Dance
Live Review

Review: Anna Karenina (The Australian Ballet)

This new production, co-produced with Joffrey Ballet, has finally arrived in Melbourne to the great excitement of the audience.

February 28, 2022
Dance
Live Review

Review: The Sleeping Beauty (Queensland Ballet)

Gold Coast audiences have embraced Queensland Ballet’s arrival at its new second home with a sell-out season of its most popular ballet at HOTA.

February 28, 2022
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem (The Song Company)

Pocket edition of Brahms’s great humanitarian masterpiece is still writ large

February 28, 2022
Jazz
Live Review

Review: Zela Margossian Quintet + Stu Hunter (SIMA Jazz: NOW Summer Festival)

An impressive performance by Zela Margossian’s quintet of the repertoire on their new album The Road is further evidence of Margossian’s rare talent as a pianist/composer.

February 27, 2022
Chamber, Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Four Seasons Reimagined (Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra)

Tangos, banjos, seasons and surprises – oh my! Camerata's 2022 opener really impressed.

February 27, 2022
Classical Music, Orchestral
Live Review

Review: New Beginnings: Season Opening Gala (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)

The MSO has launched its 2022 season with an inspired program, led by its new Chief Conductor Jaime Martín.

February 26, 2022

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