Cinderella Emily’s unsure about love at first sight
A Sydneysider with a globetrotting operatic career and a young family is back in Australia to play Cinderella in Opera Australia's lavish production of Jules Massenet’s opera Cendrillon.
Music
"This concert covered hundreds of years of Christmas music." ROB KENNEDY reviews The Waiting Sky – Music for the Christmas Season, a performance by Polifemy.
LEN POWER reviews Krismas! Peace To The World, a concert of Christmas music led by Llewellyn Choir and conducted by Rowan Harvey-Martin.
"This repertoire can be boring if performed without energy and contrast, but the AHE made it absolutely thrilling." MICHAEL WILSON reviews a performance by the Australian Haydn Ensemble at Gandel Hall.
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Choir’s Christmas song cycle rolls over the world
It's time to enjoy Christmas music, whether carols, pop songs playing in the shopping malls or deeply reflective classical music, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Orchestra delivers on a daring program
"Executing this daring program with such flair and competence would have been beyond many community orchestras, but the National Capital Orchestra was up for the challenge, and delivered," writes music reviewer MICHAEL WILSON.
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Choir’s big Elijah – confident, accurate and enjoyable
LEN POWER reviews the Canberra Choral Society's performance of Elijah, by Felix Mendelssohn.
ROB KENNEDY reviews soprano Rachel Mink and the Ellery String Quartet's performance of Young Voices of America.
SAM WILSON reviews the Oriana Chorale's performance of Rachmaninoff Vespers: All-Night Vigil.
SARAH BYRNE reviews Canberra Qwire's celebratory performance of The Sound of Us – A Celebration of Community in Song.
Pop star Troye Sivan and indie band Royel Otis have had a big night at the 2024 ARIAs, while Missy Higgins was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews Homecoming: An Opera Gala, an informal yet elegant recital by five gifted young singers from the Queensland Conservatorium.
When American soprano Rachel Mink steps up to perform for Art Song Canberra, the audience will sense quite a different flavour from the usual lieder repertoire, reports HELEN MUSA.
"The ASQ’s flawless performance was astonishing." SARAH BYRNE reviews "another excellent concert" from the Australian String Quartet.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews a piano recital by young Polish pianist Łukasz Krupiński.
GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Scotland Unbound, a performance by the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe.
"This concert of strong melodies utilised to tell powerful stories of the evolution of music in America was enthusiastically performed and enjoyed." IAN McLEAN reviews the Australian National University Choral Society's concert.
"The sound quality of Phoenix has been upped in the last month with the purchase of a special violin that artistic director Dan Russell acquired while in England." ROB KENNEDY reviews the Phoenix Collective Quartet.
Thirteen-year-old piano student Zachary Li, of Nicholls, recently named winner of the ACT Young Virtuoso Award, will head to the National Fine Music Network Young Virtuoso Award Finals at Sydney Conservatorium, on November 23.
