Soprano Nadia Piave and pianist Mauro Colombis have put together Cinema! a programme of songs by Nino Rota, Georges Delerue and Charles Chaplin from Italian and French movies from the 1950’s through to the 1980’s – the gorgeous themes of Fellini’s La Strada and Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso, and those haunting songs from Colpi’s Une Aussi Longue Absence, Truffaut’s L’Amour a Vignt Ans and Sautet’s Les Choses de La Vie… this…
The Pearl and Dagger Company present Cupid and Death, a 17th century English masque that weaves a hilarious yet moralistic tale. A delight for the senses with dancing, singing, theatre and music. Directed by Nadia Piave, choreography by Fiona Garlick of the Early Dance Consort and music from some of Australia’s finest period musicians and singers, this…
Tango orchestra Tango Paradiso, brings the electric energy and smouldering passion of tango alive. Born in the bordellos of Buenos Aires at the turn of last century, the music of the tango plays the field between the harmonic complexities of jazz, the technical brilliance of classical music to finish finally in the silky sensuality of Piazzolla’s…