Review: Jayson Gillham performs Romantic Bach
Gillham puts the romance back into Bach with a little help from his transcribers.
October 25, 2017
Review: Madama Butterfly (Opera Australia)
This farewell to Moffatt Oxenbould's beautiful production takes time to soar emotionally.
October 25, 2017
Review: The Electric Concerto (Totally Huge New Music Festival)
Decibel blows the traditional concerto out of the water.
October 25, 2017
Review: Mozart: The Complete Piano Sonatas (1) (ANU School of Music)
Mike Lee's superlative recital brought out things in Mozart sometimes suspected but rarely heard.
October 24, 2017
Review: Flesh & Bone (Sydney Art Quartet with KAGE)
A stunning, dreamlike exploration of gender combining dance, music and pasta.
October 20, 2017
Review: The Dream of Gerontius (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs)
A heavenly accounting of Elgar's oratorio.
October 20, 2017
Review: Rachmaninoff on Fire (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
Brett Dean and Piers Lane set the concert hall ablaze.
October 19, 2017
Review: 7 Pleasures (Melbourne Festival)
A thought-provoking exploration of the politics of pleasure.
October 18, 2017
Review: I Am My Own Wife (Black Swan State Theatre Company)
Brendan Hanson gives a tour de force performance in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
October 18, 2017
Review: Tree of Codes (Melbourne Festival)
Fabulous dancing and stunning staging and yet...
October 18, 2017
Review: Beethoven’s Emperor (Australian Haydn Ensemble)
A smart, musically rich programme played with passion.
October 17, 2017
Review: QSO and Piers Lane – 40 Years (Queensland Symphony Orchestra)
Lane and the QSO deliver orchestral storytelling and emotional extremes.
October 17, 2017
Review: Dream Sequence (Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Carriageworks)
Brett Dean and the SSO plunge the audience deep into a sonic dreamworld.
October 17, 2017