Review: Beethoven & Bartók (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)
The MSO and its new Chief Conductor are still feeling each other out, but Jaime Martín's ebullient and dynamic presence can't be ignored.
The MSO and its new Chief Conductor are still feeling each other out, but Jaime Martín's ebullient and dynamic presence can't be ignored.
Barrie Kosky’s stupendous onstage cavalcade (featuring performers from Russia and Ukraine) is a masterful meditation on the lunacy that drives civilisations to ruin.
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.
Music-making of a high order in a concert featuring Haydn, Mozart, Vanhal and Stefan Cassomenos.
This stage adaptation of Cassavetes' film is skilfully reimagined, but lacklustre performances counteract the building tension.
A Sri Lankan-Australian playwright drops some awkwardly funny truth bombs.
Black is the new orange in this important, though flawed, new play.
Justine Clarke gives an utterly remarkable performance in this heart-rending one-woman play.
This new production, co-produced with Joffrey Ballet, has finally arrived in Melbourne to the great excitement of the audience.
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.
Pocket edition of Brahms’s great humanitarian masterpiece is still writ large
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.
Tangos, banjos, seasons and surprises – oh my! Camerata's 2022 opener really impressed.