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,…
It’s hard to imagine the world’s biggest house anthems getting any better – or bigger – than what they already are. However, when an orchestra meets the best dance music of the last 30 years it happens and it happens…
‘Synthony’ is more than just a good pun. It’s the ultimate fusion of the world’s biggest dance anthems reinvented by one of Australia’s most renowned symphony orchestras. And now, the phenomenal hybrid concert experience is returning to Sydney on Saturday…
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…