On the Saturday of Australia Day weekend, the peaceful Centennial Parklands were transformed into a rave wonderland for Electric Gardens Festival. The festival hosted a vivacious roster of well renowned international acts. Starting at midday, I arrived promptly to soak…
Perhaps you would be surprised to know that the most popular opera song of all time is not an impressive tenor aria, or a window-cracking soprano solo, or even a romantic tenor-soprano love duet, but in fact a tenor-baritone duet….
For anyone who has not yet been acquainted with the fabulous world of opera, there are currently two Opera Australia productions showing at the Sydney Opera House which would serve as the perfect introduction: Puccini’s La Boheme and Mozart’s The…
Disclosure brought the Sydney Opera House to absolute breathing, fire-breathing life with their performance. Starting their track White Noise, positively roaring through the venue’s robust A/V offerings, coupled with a laser bonanza, this otherwise rather eqoquent venue took on many…
There’s nothing like spending an evening in a low-lit jazz bar to transport you from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Whether its the latest contemporary bebop that gets you going, or strains of Miles Davis’s ‘Autumn Leaves’ taking…
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One would think that putting on a stage production of The Sound Of Music would be a shoo-in success. It is, after all, one of the most famous musicals of all time, holding a special place in the hearts of…
We crept down the long, abandoned alley at the back of the State Theatre, bypassing smelly dumpers and mangy street cats, peering, equal parts eagerly and warily, around each twist and turn, until we came to the stage door. We took…
In an era in which performing arts venues and companies are closing down at a rate of knots due to lack of funding, it is comforting to see that some patrons are investing in the future of Australian theatre and…
Two world-class masters of music, conductor Edo de Waart and pianist Ronald Brautigam, both hailing from The Netherlands, head the final program in the 2015 Sydney Symphony Orchestra subscription series. The fellow countrymen have chosen a classical Mozart concerto, a…