Review: Sounds of Australia (Gondwana World Choral Festival)
An auspicious and joyful start to Gondwana’s birthday celebrations.
An auspicious and joyful start to Gondwana’s birthday celebrations.
Ample talent on display, but the story needs more work to properly take off.
The Australian-Mauritian soprano will make her role debut as Violetta when La Traviata returns to Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour next year.
The actor reflects on a childhood spent around the record player listening to opera, falling in love to the sounds of Aretha Franklin and Frank Sinatra, and a fascinating musical lineage.
Newcomers join established voices in this year’s awards, with more women than men in the running for the prestigious Orchestral Work of the Year category for the first time in the Awards’ history.
Once again it was Counting and Cracking's night as the epic new play from Belvoir and Co-Curious took home three more awards.
A teacher and his wife-cum-pupil speak in similar voices.
Swiss group plays among the stars to hypnotic effect.
Four worthy pianists joined the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in the finals of the competition in Brisbane.
Stellar trio finesse Russian’s masterworks.
Reinvented Israeli composer gets reinvented for the 21st century.
Naxos’ new 30-disc Brazilian series sets off in classical style.
20th-century Italian rep proves well worth making the effort.