Selby and Friends review

Harriet Cunningham reviews “Friends and Admirers” from Selby and Friends:

Harriet Cunningham reviews “Friends and Admirers” from Selby and Friends:
Life on Land’s Edge is music with an environmental conscience. Its pure sounds are pleasurable to listen to and intensely calming.
It was a joy to be present at the Sydney Chamber Choir’s ‘Paul Stanhope: A New Requiem’ for a celebration of exemplary Australian choral music and performance.
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Dmitry Sinkovsky, violin 26 July 2017, City Recital Hall, Angel Place Written by Larry Turner Dmitry Sinkovsky has acquired a substantial reputation in Europe and North America both as a violinist and a counter-tenor. On this 2017 tour for the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, it is his virtuosity as a violinist that is…
Bach’s Universal Light Bach Akademie Australia Melbourne Digital Concert Hall October 2, 2020 It was a concert for our times when the Bach Akademie Australia presented Bach’s Universal Light, on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall. Livestreamed from the Cellblock Theatre at Sydney’s National Art School, founder and artistic director of the BAA, Madeleine Easton, gathered an…
It was the final rehearsal of Opera Australia’s production of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld and Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini’s pre-curtain up announcements presaged something different. For this performance only, the audience was encouraged to tweet and secondly, they would be allowed to take photos during the final curtain calls. Stepping even further away from…
The highly anticipated production of La Traviata staged on Sydney harbour opened on Saturday night. This production has polarised opera lovers. Without doubt the performances are superlative and the concept of an open-air opera with the spectacle of Sydney harbour as a backdrop is irresistible. As to whether it is ‘opera’ – the verdicts on that proposition are rolling in. As pure entertainment…