Review: Meta Cohen and Olivier Messiaen: Prophecy & Eternity (fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival)
Cohen’s Delphi Songs and Messiaen's wartime Visions de l’Amen are paired in a delicately executed concert.
Cohen’s Delphi Songs and Messiaen's wartime Visions de l’Amen are paired in a delicately executed concert.
A fine cast led by Alison Whyte is kept too busy with comedy to do justice to the tragedy of Tennessee Williams’s memory play.
Folk tunes taken to the next level with extraordinary care and precision.
A fine Schubert sonata, expertly performed by Kristian Chong – with equally fine wines to wash down each movement.
Ensemble Liaison and collaborators Lina Tur Bonet and James Crabb ace the ‘groove test'.
A near-perfect musical fusion where the mystical and mythical meet.
A masterclass in whimsy, humour and quirk, with inspired direction and fine singing.
John Cranko’s evergreen masterpiece proves the perfect vehicle for Callum Linnane’s final performances with The Australian Ballet.
A “pocket-sized” production that began its life in a backroom of an actual bookstore continues to delight theatregoers around the globe.
Nowadays, audiences go to the ballet or to symphony concerts, but it wasn’t always that way.
A transcendent program co-curated and composed by Ross Edwards is the perfect send-off for outgoing Festival Director Catherine Harker.
Mozart’s legendary libertine is back in this modest new production that can’t solve the opera’s misogyny but does justice to its timeless music.
Virtuoso David Elton conjures trumpet magic in a chamber music setting.