Thursday, November 2, 2023

Director Kasper Holten's thought-provoking Lohengrin returns with superbly sung performances at Deutsche Oper Berlin

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In 2026, it will be 150 years since the Bayreuth Festival was inaugurated. To celebrate the anniversary, the entire Bayreuth canon — the las...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Ideas touching, playful and entertaining flood director Damiano Michieletto's new production of The Tales of Hoffmann in Sydney

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As if to drive its point to make sense of its almost three hours of vivid theatre, the closing moments of French composer Jacques Offenbach’...
Friday, June 16, 2023

The Good People of Ireland

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  🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀 Today, I left the Emerald Isle where the Irish are supposedly known for their hospitality. It’s real! And...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Irish National Opera’s clever culturally contextualised Così fan tutte

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The more than 200-year-old meltingly musical beauty and comical yet thought-provoking nature of Mozart’s 1789 opera buffa,  Così fan tutte, ...
Monday, December 26, 2022

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The 6th Annual OperaChaser Awards  - 2022 - Revealed via Twitter @OperaChaser and Facebook on 27th December 2022,  commencing at 5pm, Droman...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

A formidably sung grand opera accompanies Opera Australia's judicious decision to stage Halévy’s La Juive

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“Jew or Christian, we’ll share one fate.” So announce two lovers in a courageous act that resides in the hostile climate of religious discri...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

An electric, colourful and imaginative way of seeing a rarity in Cavalli's The Loves of Apollo & Dafne at Pinchgut Opera

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Published online at Australian Arts Review, 22nd May 2021 https://artsreview.com.au/the-loves-of-apollo-dafne/ One of the great beauties of ...
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