Category: music

Pete Murray Live at Manly Barracks

Night at The Barracks is back! Set within Manly’s Iconic Barracks station, Night at The Barracks is a series of concerts set against the backdrop of North Head Sancturary’s Barracks Precinct. One of the first shows to start the much-loved…

Khalid Live at the Sydney Opera House.

The Sydney Opera House Concert Hall proved to be an incredibly fitting setting for American multi-platinum singer-songwriter Khalid’s exclusive world premiere of his highly anticipated album, Sincere. Having not graced Australian shores in five years, Khalid’s return to Sydney for…

Zahra Newman Shines in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill

In the dimly lit ambience of the Belvoir St. Theatre, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill unfolds, offering audiences a mesmerising journey into the tumultuous life of jazz legend Billie Holiday. Set in a small Philadelphia nightclub in 1959,…

Spectacular and Divine: Phantom is finally here!

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…

Maria Stuarda in Concert

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…

Otello Review

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…

The Marriage of Figaro

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…