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GeelongHandel's Messiah

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Händel: Messias
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Sir James MacMillan; Mia Robinson; Stephanie Dillon; Louis Hurley; David Greco

MelbourneHandel's Messiah

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Händel: Messias
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Sir James MacMillan; Mia Robinson; Stephanie Dillon; Louis Hurley; David Greco
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An updated Poppea crowned in Melbourne

Meechot Marrero (Poppea) and Samuel Dundas (Nerone) © Jeff Busby
An updated staging of this 17th-century opera, with great singing and acting, is more successful than its somewhat distracting updated orchestration. 
****1
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Faithful to Handel: Pinchgut Opera performs Theodora

Samantha Clarke (Theodora) © Keith Saunders
Pinchgut Opera presents magnificent music and a timeless ethical debate on faith versus sectarian difference. 
****1
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Physical comedy detracts from Pinchgut's musically ravishing Orontea

Ravishing music and performances, a crazy G&S plot, but physicality that tends to distract in Constantine Costi's production.
****1
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The after party you can't miss: Pinchgut's Platée

In arguably its best production to date, theatre luminary Neil Armfield combines with Pinchgut and Erin Helyard for the first time to deliver this electrifying production of Rameau's comic masterpiece, Platée.
*****
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Pinchgut returns with Charpentier in Sydney

Not quite ready for a full-blown opera, but Sydney's Pinchgut maintains its historically informed purity with a delicately expanded version of Charpentier's Messe de Minuit.
****1
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Castellucci’s makeover of Mozart’s Requiem at the Adelaide Festival

A work designed to be performed in church has become a dramatic music theatre event that captured and held me enthralled throughout in a meditation on both death and life.

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