culture
Don Quichotte Opera Australia Review
Massenet’s Don Quichotte premiered in Sydney last Friday, March 16. It had neither been performed by Opera Australia…
19 Mar 2018 culture
Bell Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra — Review
Bell Shakespeare opens the 2018 season with the love story of the world’s first celebrity couple. Before Kim…
10 Mar 2018 culture
La Traviata – An Opera Australia Triumph
The opening night standing ovation says it all. Opera Australia’s musically and dramatically emotive production of La Traviata…
3 Mar 2018 culture
Review of Carmen – A John Bell / Opera Australia Collaboration
Opera Australia’s sophisticated and yet accessible production of Carmen has something for everyone. Opera aficionados who feel they…
12 Feb 2018 culture
‘The Merry Widow’ with Opera Australia
The Sydney Opera House’s Joan Sutherland Theatre has finally reopened, after undergoing the most significant renovations since the…
7 Jan 2018 culture
‘The Wizard of Oz’ – a most wonderful musical in Sydney
If ever, oh ever, a show there was, The Wizard of Oz is one because, because, because, because,…
5 Jan 2018 culture
The Merchant of Venice Review
The Merchant of Venice is perhaps the most infamously difficult of Shakespeare’s plays to stage for a modern…
28 Oct 2017 culture
Farewelling Madama Butterfly
The most popular opera of all time, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, has hit the Capitol Theatre for its final…
25 Oct 2017 film
The Joy of Going to the Pictures at Dendy Opera Quays
This week two of my girlfriends and I went to see a special showing of the 1939 classic…
29 Sep 2017 culture
Absobloomin’lutely Loverly!
The highly-anticipated encore season of My Fair Lady has arrived! The 60th anniversary production of the original Tony…
29 Aug 2017