Sumi Jo recital reviewed
Murray Black reviews Sumi Jo’s recital for The Australian:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/deja-vu-of-the-best-kind/story-fn9d2mxu-1226519854341
Similar Posts
Concert Review: Paranoia x Demon Ducks x Frankenstein x DC Universe: A Bonanzaic Palooza
Concert Review: Paranoia x Demon Ducks x Frankenstein x DC Universe: A Bonanzaic Palooza Momentum Ensemble Australian Youth Orchestra, Rachelle Durkin soprano, Christoph Altstaedt conductor Cellblock Theatre, Sydney, 19 April 2024. Demon Ducks and Pandemonium!! is a multimedia presentation combining theatre and orchestra, which takes us back in time to a place called Brueghelland; to…
The Sydney Children’s Choir travels with its tales in song
In the evening heat of London this July, we may as well have been in a Sydney summer as the Sydney Children’s Choir gracefully and with innocent joy, took us to their heartland on the final evening of their 2013 European tour. There were no signs of flagging spirits amongst the now-seasoned travellers at the…
Birthday Boy Kaufmann Impresses In Role Debut As Otello
I cannot recall a more highly anticipated performance. Jonas Kaufmann, demigod of the opera world was about take to the stage of the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, making his debut in the title role of Verdi’s Otello. And I was in the stalls. There was a sense of disbelief to the occasion. After a…
‘Queen’s’ winning hand reviewed
Saturday night was the first ot two performances by the Sydney Symphony of a concert version of Tchaikowsky’s Queen of Spades. Not performed in Sydney since 1979 it is a rare opportunity to hear this masterpiece, and the out-of -this-world soloists who have gathered in Sydney to sing with the orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy….
“A stirring and insightful musical experience” – Turandot reviewed
Among his many virtues as a composer, Giacomo Puccini was above all, a master of contrast – musical, dramatic and ultimately emotional. He combined musical genius with an incisive theatrical instinct to create operas full of thrilling grandiosity and gripping intimacy, often within minutes of each other. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
Concert Review: Mozart Requiem: 100 Voices/ Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
There is a delicious irony to an orchestral concert that begins with unaccompanied choral items. Indeed the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Mozart Requiem: 100 Voices programme was well on its way before we saw the first instruments on stage. It was a night when voices took centre-stage, and those voices comprised school students culled from some…