On Air & Online: Radio and streaming in April 2021
This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
Deborah Jones is a writer specialising in dance. A former long-serving Arts Editor of The Australian, she is currently the newspaper’s national dance critic and also reviews musical theatre and theatre. She is the Sydney correspondent for London-based Opera magazine and Vancouver-based Dance International.
This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
Monteverdi’s sublime work is given glorious voice by Pinchgut in an intimate arrangement.
Delightful performances give this small romance a big heart.
Béla Bartók’s only opera, first performed in 1918, sounds glorious and is astutely staged for 21st-century audiences.
Limelight sent two critics to Circa's Peepshow – and they had very different responses. Read our 2-star and 4-star reviews.
Ernani is a feast for the ears but rather less so for the eyes.
The Hayes is back on the boards with a genre-defying concert.
Claire Cowan's Hansel and Gretel ballet score is a delectable treat for young and old.
Though the message is mostly opaque, the 10 glorious humans performing are something special.
Mary Li’s memoir is a splendid companion piece to that by her husband, Li Cunxin.
Jansson J. Antmann, Steve Dow, Deborah Jones and Ian Whitney analyse this year’s offerings in theatres and concert halls.
David Hallberg talks to Deborah Jones about his plans for The Australian Ballet, about holding the audience’s hand when presenting unfamiliar choreography, and about keeping the spark in classical ballet alive.
Brisbane’s shake & stir theatre co puts the past, present and future (as well as a hurdy-gurdy) into Christmas as Nick Skubij explains.