Review: Carmina Burana (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs)
Delivering a beloved choral classic alongside satisfying new Australian works proved a great example of modern programming.
Delivering a beloved choral classic alongside satisfying new Australian works proved a great example of modern programming.
Sondheim's throat-slashing musical gets a razor-sharp production, with a fine double act from Ben Mingay and Antoinette Halloran at its dark heart.
The Marvellous Elephant Man will play for four weeks in the Sydney Spiegeltent, the pop-up centrepiece of a new Fringe precinct.
The first part of Opera Australia’s 2024 season has launched and Guest Artistic Director Lindy Hume's program is no business-as-usual proposition.
The stars come out for a night of popular music that sends its audience out on a high.
Sincere and irreverent, this new musical transforms an enduring symbol of suffering into one of hope – and never lets the facts get in the way.
Celebrating his 20th year as Artistic & Music Director, Brett Weymark has put together a program that focuses on voice, energy and joy, and features popular favourites along with new commissions by First Nations and Australian composers.
Benjamin Britten's operatic adaption of Henry James' famous novella is presented with strong performances and magnificent, menacing stage design.
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.
It's third time lucky for the long overdue Australian premiere of the classic rock opera.
When Rameau wrote Platée he was taking a bold step outside of traditional French opera by treating comedy as seriously as tragedy. Erin Helyard explains.
State Opera South Australia will perform The Turn of the Screw and The Barber of Seville in the remainder of its 2021 season.
From naughty Bavarian monks to our sunburnt country, this concert had it all.