Review: Blackheath Chamber Music Festival 2024: Day One
This year’s festival is off to a virtuosic start with Louise Johnson in The Harp's Journey and the Goldner String Quartet’s 30th-anniversary celebration.
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 a regular contributor of features and reviews at Limelight.
This year’s festival is off to a virtuosic start with Louise Johnson in The Harp's Journey and the Goldner String Quartet’s 30th-anniversary celebration.
The Australian Ballet's dancers make Johan Inger’s masterpiece their own, meeting his challenge to find the human in its ugliness and beauty.
“This is me. This is my world!” Tim Draxl puts a new and personal spin on Sunset Boulevard's cynical protagonist.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
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.