Review: Benaud Trio (Musica Viva Tasmania)
Commitment, virtuosity and flair in a Viennese classic and two contemporary pieces.
Commitment, virtuosity and flair in a Viennese classic and two contemporary pieces.
Rusalka is a potent reminder that opera is a hybrid beast with real power to engage and sometimes overwhelm.
Dutch pianist Joep Beving’s music is good for what ails you.
With a spectacular world premiere, Backstage Music show an unmatched, unwavering commitment to accessibility in the arts.
Ellen van Neerven's play uses a swimming pool setting to explore the complexities of belonging, identity and assimilation.
This classic-with-a-twist interpretation of Tennessee Williams’s masterpiece mostly works, especially Nikki Shiels’s magnetic Blanche DuBois.
Restoring the mythic nature of Virgil’s epic to Purcell's Baroque masterpiece, Yaron Lifschitz sets a new benchmark for opera production in Australia.
A legendary improviser and the intimacy of grand Elizabeth Bay House make for a perfect musical pair.
Director Tyran Parke deftly balances joy and grief, maintaining a buoyant tone that avoids a descent into melodrama.
In this sensational concert of French music, Olivier Latry reminds us why the organ was long ago crowned The King of Instruments.
Shakespeare’s play is given a feminist shake-up, but this sometimes pedestrian, occasionally unclear take comes undone.
Words and music from the two hemispheres align, inspired by the dawn, mythology, desert landscapes and the forces of nature.
A scintillating performance of great chamber masterpieces by Bartók, Brahms and Beethoven.