Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour present The Phantom of the Opera Now, that was just what the doctor ordered! After repeated bouts of illness, extended isolation, resultant depression, and financial stress, what many of us have needed for quite some…
OK, first things first. For those of us who are not operatic doyens, “In Concert” means performed as a recital rather than a play. So no Tudor sets. No wigs, crowns or cod-pieces. No banners, scaffold or axe. Rather than…
On a wet and windy night my plus one and I joined hundreds of other punters at First Fleet Park in The Rocks for a taste of exhilarating theatre, spectacle and comedy. We were here to witness a show unlike…
A young woman lies dead at the hands of her new husband in a shocking murder-suicide. Jealousy and domestic violence were issues in Shakespeare’s day, 400 years ago, still present in Verdi’s day, 150 years ago, and are sadly as…
My plus one at the opening night of Opera Australia’s current production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro was my husband. He had been wanting to see this particular opera for years. His favourite movie of all time, The Shawshank…
If it were at all possible to add more horsepower and octane to Verdi’s tour d’force Aida, Opera Australia’s rendition now playing at the Sydney Opera House has found a way. Director Davide Livermore and Conductor Lorenzo Passerini have risen…
The words “American Psycho” and “the musical” don’t sound like they belong together in a sentence, let alone in a title. And yet, as with many things these days, it’s so wrong it’s right. The macabre and the fabulous. It’s…
In their first solo tour since 2019 (thanks again to our friend SARS-CoV-2), the Australian String Quartet (ASQ) has returned to Sydney with an incredible concert in the Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House featuring Bartók, Mendelssohn and Fischer. The ASQ,…
Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Fun Home has done it again, with another brilliant musical staged at the Roslyn Packer Theatre. While there are other Tony award-winning musicals playing across Sydney, Fun Home is an incredible snapshot of an unassuming…
We were looking forward to it a full year ago. Now, after more anticipation than we could ever have imagined in a pre-Covid world, La Traviata has finally arrived to Sydney Harbour and does not disappoint. It is a spectacle…