Review: Klezmer Connections (Australian Festival of Chamber Music)
The AFCM caps off the Sunset Series with a cracker of a concert inspired by Jewish music.
The AFCM caps off the Sunset Series with a cracker of a concert inspired by Jewish music.
The time seems to have come for this 1983 pastoral Gothic chamber opera by Ross Edwards and Dorothy Hewitt.
Kathryn Stott's musical sorbet proves a meal on its own.
A smartly programmed conversation between baroque and 20th-century music.
Van Badham's new play tackles pickup artistry and the internet's seamy underside.
Barrie Kosky's daring, dazzling production is controversial yet poignant, with the music having the final say.
A wild, confronting and bittersweet ride in three acts you won’t easily forget.
A crack squad from the Australian World Orchestra delivers a thoroughly enjoyable evening of chamber music.
A night of music across the spectrum, climaxing on a surprising note with Schoenberg's beast – Verklärkte Nacht.
A mournful Popper and happy-go-lucky Copland between two immense Czech works.
By establishing the rift between the boys too early, the production doesn't have the inexorable tension or poignancy of the book.
Though dramaturgically flawed, this adaptation of Peter Carey's beloved novel is full of daring and brilliance.
Alex Ollé's production is an admirable attempt to mine the trauma that informs Puccini's fantasy of the East.