The Sixteen reviewed….
The eighteen singers of The Sixteen and their twenty strong instrumental ensemble perform in Sydney:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/baroque-masters-offer-rich-textures-20120228-1u0rq.html
The eighteen singers of The Sixteen and their twenty strong instrumental ensemble perform in Sydney:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/baroque-masters-offer-rich-textures-20120228-1u0rq.html
Opera Australia:Der Ring des Nibelungen: Götterdämmerung Arts Centre Melbourne/25 November 2013 ***** The Third Day of Wagner’s music colossus concluded what has been the kind of festival he had planned: all four operas being performed in close succession by outstanding singers and a Wagner sized orchestra of excellent musicians in a production that illuminates…
Testament, Acacia Quartet 19 May,2019 The Independent Theatre, North Sydney Written by Ria Andriani Acacia Quartet’s programme Testament, was a rich offering, from the ice-breaker Mozart, to Alice Chance, reflective Mansurian and luscious Debussy. Mozart’s String Quartet in C major, K465, nicknamed ‘Dissonance’ offered a good introduction to the group’s character and musicality. Though considered dissonant…
Peter McCallum reviews the Steve Reich Celebration for the SMH: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/rhythms-unfold-with-a-timeless-grandeur-20120430-1xv0e.html …and from Murray Black at The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/three-ages-of-reich-revisited-with-brio/story-fn9d2mxu-1226343085722
The Magic of Paul Dean The Flinders Quartet The Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House October 29, 2014 The waves of Sydney harbour – at times serene, at times restless – provided the perfect backdrop to the themes of the Flinders Quartet’s presentation The Magic of Paul Dean in the Utzon Room of the Sydney…
Albert Herring – Benjamin Britten Opera Australia, 16 August 2013 Amid the flurry of celebrations for this year’s Verdi and Wagner bicentenaries the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten has been overshadowed. Opera Australia is commemorating it with a revival of John Cox’s 1976 production of Albert Herring – probably the earliest production to…
The Magic Flute – W A Mozart, Libretto: Emmanuel Schikaneder. Opera Australia, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House January 10th 2014. Coinciding with the numerology of Mozart’s 1791 singspiel, there are three pillars of wisdom to be accepted in appreciating this production of The Magic Flute. First, it is sung in English not in…