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Classical Music, Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Donizetti: L’esule di Roma (Britten Sinfonia, Opera Rara Chorus, Carlo Rizzi)

Opera Rara sheds light on a Donizetti rarity, mad scene for bass-baritone and all.

April 8, 2024
Chamber, Classical Music
CD and Other Review

Review: Weir, Britten, Cawrse (Celia Craig, Anthony Steel, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Boyd)

Celia Craig's oboe is the star on two premiere recordings.

March 11, 2024
Opera
Live Review

Review: Peter Grimes (Teatro alla Scala)

When three Australians appear on the same bill at one of the world’s most prestigious opera houses, it’s an occasion worthy of celebration.

October 26, 2023
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Britten’s Serenade (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)

Directed by Andrew Haveron, the SSO strings strut their stuff and two extraordinary guest artists shine.

August 25, 2023
Chamber
Live Review

Review: Fish, Chips & Warm Beer (Ensemble Q)

A celebration of music both Great and British, Fish, Chips & Warm Beer was brilliantly played and passionately delivered.  

July 17, 2023
Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: Songs of Rosa Mystica (The Song Company)

The Song Company provides mystical and musical challenges aplenty and a moving farewell to Kaija Saariho.

June 13, 2023
Books
features

Quartet: Selective stories of women composers

Leah Broad's new book titled Quartet boldly claims that four women changed the musical world. But did they?

April 14, 2023
Books
Book Review

Review: Cranko – The Man and his Choreography (Ashely Killar)

The ballet icon’s life and work undergo a forensic examination that pulls no punches.

February 20, 2023
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: POW Requiem (Flowers of Peace)

This extraordinary program includes selections from the Changi Songbook, providing the right balance of light relief and ethereal beauty in contrast to the heavier themes explored.

October 31, 2022
Chamber, Opera
Live Review

Review: Awakening Shadow (Sydney Chamber Opera)

Despite exquisite vocal and musical performances, this staging of Benjamin Britten's Canticles is less than the sum of its otherwise beautiful parts, landing somewhere between performance art and oratorio.

October 3, 2022
Classical Music, Orchestral
Live Review

Review: Britten’s War Requiem (West Australian Symphony Orchestra)

Conductor Asher Fisch led more like a general heedless of his own safety in this magnificent reading of one of the 20th century’s most profound compositions.

August 20, 2022
Opera
Live Review

Review: The Turn of the Screw (State Opera South Australia)

Benjamin Britten's operatic adaption of Henry James' famous novella is presented with strong performances and magnificent, menacing stage design.

May 2, 2022
Opera
features

Rachelle Durkin on the terror of Turn of the Screw

After two decades based in the US, Durkin has returned to Australia and is poised to star in one of Britten's darkest works.

April 22, 2022

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