Review: Petite messe solennelle (Festival of Voices)
A Festival of Voices highlight reaffirms Rossini’s vivid musical imagination and humour in a work that is neither little or solemn.
A Festival of Voices highlight reaffirms Rossini’s vivid musical imagination and humour in a work that is neither little or solemn.
A looming prom night puts a ticking clock under Jacob Parker's Dumb Kids, an energetic, thoughtful study of youthful anxiety and diversity.
Chinese-Australian cellist Li-Wei Qin is as suave and fluent a cellist as one could wish for in music such as Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1.
Fortune favours the bold – and the Freedman Jazz Fellowship winner’s new evocative interdisciplinary work puts himself among them.
An appealing back-to-basics approach for this Romeo and Juliet has Shakespeare’s words do the heavy lifting.
Fourteen seasons in one night and a very crowded house at the Great Synagogue.
This ingenious, double-plotted musical, with a stunning jazz score and hilarious book, is brought to vivid life at the Hayes.
This new Il trovatore may not sit well with the purist, but this is one of the most interesting productions of the year.
An adventurous and usual program blended the best of choral singing with jazz – and all with a strong French accent.
A superlative evening of Mozart from Tognetti and company helps us escape these troubling times.
As Wicked did for The Wizard of Oz, this new Australian musical gives the Cinderella fairytale a modern makeover.
An exploration of symphonic form, and a magnificent Li-Wei Qin cello concerto performance, beneath a wintry night sky.
A cross-country journey of revenge continues the cycle of family violence in this darkly comic American play.