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Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: Carmina Burana (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs)

Delivering a beloved choral classic alongside satisfying new Australian works proved a great example of modern programming.

September 11, 2023
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Sweeney Todd (Sydney Opera House)

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.

July 28, 2023
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
news

Sydney Fringe announces tentpole show for 2023

The Marvellous Elephant Man will play for four weeks in the Sydney Spiegeltent, the pop-up centrepiece of a new Fringe precinct.

June 14, 2023
Opera
news

Opera Australia launches 2024 Sydney season with five-show “mini festival”

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.

June 6, 2023
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: The Golden Age of Broadway (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs)

The stars come out for a night of popular music that sends its audience out on a high.

May 7, 2023
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Marvellous Elephant Man The Musical (Guy Masterson and Floating World Entertainment)

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.

April 20, 2023
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
news

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs announces 2023 season

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.

November 28, 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

Turandon’t? On racism and representation in opera

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.

March 4, 2022
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Who’s Tommy (Victorian Opera)

It's third time lucky for the long overdue Australian premiere of the classic rock opera.

February 23, 2022
Opera
features

Pinchgut gets to grips with one of the first comic operas

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.

November 18, 2021
Opera
news

State Opera South Australia announces its final 2021 productions

State Opera South Australia will perform The Turn of the Screw and The Barber of Seville in the remainder of its 2021 season.

July 12, 2021
Live Review

Review: Carmina Burana (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs)

From naughty Bavarian monks to our sunburnt country, this concert had it all.

May 23, 2021

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