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Chamber, Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Quintessence (Flinders Quartet, Paavali Jumppanen & Canberra International Music Festival)

Two composers from behind the Iron Curtain presented with subversive flair.

May 4, 2025
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Baroque Brilliance (West Australian Symphony Orchestra)

Under guest leader Shaun Lee-Chen, WASO pivots convincingly to historically-informed performance mode.

May 4, 2025
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Les Misérables The Arena Spectacular (Cameron Mackintosh & Live Nation)

Some narrative clarity lost in this fast-paced concert-style production but a brilliant cast bounces everything off the back wall - and that's a very long way.

May 2, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: IRL (The Other Theatre & KXT bAKEHOUSE)

A queer rom-com in cosplay, where love gets lost in the blur between virtual and real.

May 2, 2025
Chamber
Live Review

Review: Schubert Lieder (Australian Haydn Ensemble & Canberra International Music Festival)

Baritone David Greco and Australian Haydn Ensemble achieve the tight and coordinated ebb and flow required to give lieder its life.

May 2, 2025
Dance
Live Review

Review: Manon (The Australian Ballet)

Kenneth MacMillan’s masterpiece is back, as potent and sexy as ever, and danced to perfection.

May 1, 2025
Opera
Live Review

Review: The Verdi Gala Concert (Opera Australia)

Soprano Nicole Car dazzles in this thoughtfully programmed concert also featuring her baritone husband Étienne Dupuis.

May 1, 2025
Chamber, Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Fantasia (Melbourne Chamber Orchestra & Canberra International Music Festival)

With a theme of freedom hard-won, and an emphasis on Finnish and Australian Indigenous music, Fantasia is a taste of the Festival in its entirety.

May 1, 2025
Chamber, Festivals
Live Review

Review: Blackheath Chamber Music Festival 2025

The Blue Mountains festival goes from strength to strength with three premieres and an all-star lineup including Reginald Mobley, Lior and Nigel Westlake.

April 29, 2025
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: Reincarnations (Brisbane Chamber Choir)

Grief explored in all its colours on this Anzac Day concert featuring QSO Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici on cello.

April 28, 2025
Chamber, Jazz
Live Review

Review: Jazz:NOW – Wood & Wire (SIMA)

A classic with a twist paired with a wonderful sonic storm – Jazz:NOW exhibits the diversity of contemporary jazz and improvised music.

April 24, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Dr Strangelove (National Theatre Live)

Steve Coogan takes on the three roles so superbly played by Peter Sellars – but playing a fourth is a bridge too far.

April 24, 2025
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Posh (Queen Hades Productions & Old Fitzroy Theatre)

Sons of the upper crust run riot in this biting satirical portrait of an England in which social class still holds sway.

April 23, 2025

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