LEN POWER reviews the National Capital Orchestra's first concert for 2025, which was centred on Shostakovich.
Review
MICHAEL WILSON reviews Harmonic Curves: Romantic Piano, a "thought-provoking" performance by pianist Arnan Wiesel.
"A gifted storyteller with a relaxed stream-of-consciousness style, all her stories were around food." BILL STEPHENS reviews Michelle Pearson's Comfort Food Cabaret.
IAN McLEAN reviews Angels & Serenades, a performance by Musica Da Camera Canberra, conducted by Brad Tham.
MICHAEL WILSON reviews Days of Miracle and Wonder, performed by the project choir Coro under the direction of David Mackay.
"Well pointed feet make a huge difference to the quality of ballet dancing and poor use of the feet prevented this Swan Lake being as strong as it might have been." MICHELLE POTTER reviews the Victorian State Ballet.
Reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN says Sophie Hutchings' Resonant Spaces performance was an unusual and rewarding evening.
"It’s all delightfully silly, but remarkably, in all the threatening chaos, WS Gilbert’s story gets told... and Arthur Sullivan’s music is respected." BILL STEPHENS reviews the wickedly silly laugh fest that's The Pirates of Penzance.
ROB KENNEDY reviews Opera's Bad Girl, Sarahlouise Owens' one-woman performance recounting the remarkable life of Victorian Diva Anna Bishop.
LEN POWER reviews Across Space and Time, a piano recital by Stuart Long of moving movie music.
"The ensemble’s dramatic approach to the work brought out a new experience of Mozart’s astonishing harmonic adventurism." NICK HORN reviews the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
"The applause grew and was sustained as the audience realised that they had just heard something quite remarkable." GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Gesualdo Tenebrae, a performance by the Luminescence Chamber Singers.
