Review: The Threepenny Opera (Berliner Ensemble & Adelaide Festival)
Barrie Kosky’s brilliant makeover of Brecht, Weill and Hauptmann’s flawed masterpiece leaves you wondering how it could be performed any other way.
DAMU-trained scenographer Jansson J. Antmann designed the Czech premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tell Me on a Sunday. A presenter on 2MBS Fine Music Sydney and Editor of LaVie in Europe, he was Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s publicist, a regular on ABC Overnights and acting Deputy Editor at Limelight, where he is an ongoing contributor.
Barrie Kosky’s brilliant makeover of Brecht, Weill and Hauptmann’s flawed masterpiece leaves you wondering how it could be performed any other way.
Rear Window meets Cabaret in this joyous and sometimes achingly romantic exposé of desire, intimacy and love.
Making the most of a spectacular setting, Stephen Page’s first work since leaving Bangarra is surprisingly intimate given its grand scale.
Presented in Australia for the first time, Robert Lepage’s puppetry-based staging of Stravinsky’s short works is as brilliant as ever.
A marvel of stagecraft, Mario Banushi’s semi-autobiographical meditation on grief is as poetic as it is horrific.
Anne Cawrse and Kate Llewellyn’s song cycle is a transcendent work, its world premiere hopefully the first of many more performances to come.
Exquisite singing and a feeling of déjà vu mark the return of Mozart’s seminal opera after a 30-year absence.
Ahead of an Adelaide Festival performance of their two song cycles, Nigel Westlake and Lior talk about their collaborative process and what comes first: the words or music.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
A busy schedule sees him spend much of his time in Poland and Italy, but conductor Daniel Smith is busy promoting Australian musicians far and wide.
Constantine Costi’s outdoor staging of Puccini’s thriller looks beyond the Grand-Guinol and gives its heroine a fresh makeover.
There’s a confidence and assurance at play in the programming by Australian arts organisations for 2024.
What do our festivals have on offer in the year ahead?