Neue Kritikenmehr...
An over-ambitious Jephtha in Canberra
Some nice singing and Baroque playing don't quite make up for an over-ambitious, drab staging of a Handel oratorio in Australia's capital.
Layton returns to Auckland with Bach and Pärt
...it was the Bach pieces that were the undoubted highlights, particularly the radiant contribution of Sara Macliver.
Haydn's Armida in Sydney
Confusion has such lovely music! Sydney's pioneering Baroque and early classical opera specialists, Pinchgut Opera offered Haydn's Armida as its 16th production.
Iphegénie en Tauride storms into Sydney
In the opening scene of Pinchgut Opera's latest production, Gluck's rarely performed Iphigénie en Tauride, a swirling musical, dramatic and visually strobe-enhanced tempest is belted out.