Vale Garth Welch, pioneering Australian dancer and choreographer
Invited by Dame Peggy van Praagh to be a Principal with the newly formed Australian Ballet in 1962, Welch was central to the company’s formative repertoire.
Invited by Dame Peggy van Praagh to be a Principal with the newly formed Australian Ballet in 1962, Welch was central to the company’s formative repertoire.
Restoring the mythic nature of Virgil’s epic to Purcell's Baroque masterpiece, Yaron Lifschitz sets a new benchmark for opera production in Australia.
The Wedding Singer swept the musical theatre categories as the Green Room Awards recognised productions throughout the last two years.
In an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, Cat-Thao Nguyen said she left OA's Turandot after Act 1 feeling "utterly sick" at the racism. We look at the complex issue.
Australian soprano Anna-Louise Cole has just made her role debut as Turandot for OA – and what an impressive performance it was.
This fine OA production of Puccini's opera is a cracking night out, and a perfect antidote to these dark, pestilence-filled days.
The West Australian Ballet’s triple bill State is a program of wit, humour, inventiveness, beauty, first-rate choreographic drive and passion, and sheer entertainment.
The former dancer and Artistic Director of The Australian Ballet was surprised at a gala lunch when he was presented with the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award.
Julie Lea Goodwin is gorgeous as the merry widow Hanna Glavari, and perfectly supported by Alexander Lewis as Danilo Danilovich.
OA is announcing its 2021 program in stages. This first season includes Ernani, Bluebeard's Castle, The Merry Widow and Tosca. Lyndon Terracini also addresses the company restructure and redundancies.
The program includes three classic ballets, an excerpt from Graeme Murphy's Air and Other Invisible Forces, and a new contemporary piece by Melanie Lane.
Graeme Murphy's new ballet is an imaginative feast for the eyes, igniting the senses, but it doesn't sustain emotional engagement.
This triple bill showed off all the qualities of the company and then some.