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Uncompromising theatre: Gilgamesh world premiere

Jeremy Kleeman (Gilgamesh) © Daniel Boud
A powerful work by brave innovators is a legacy for the departing Opera Australia Artistic Director. 

A triptych of loss from Sydney Chamber Opera

Emily Edmonds in Quatre Instants © Daniel Boud
Monodramas by Francis Poulenc, Kaija Saariaho and Jack Symonds feature in a triple bill on the themes of love, loss and absence. 

Deeper than the day: Dusapin's O Mensch

Absorbing performances from Mitch Reilly and Jack Symonds render Dusapin's O Mensch a highly charged experience at the end of the Sydney Festival.

Mayakovsky: an object of operatic fascination

A new opera by Alison Croggon and Michael Smetanin on the Soviet poet Mayakovsky is an intense experience in the production by Sydney Chamber Opera under Jack Symonds.

Sydney Festival: Sydney Chamber Opera

Sydney Chamber Opera deliver a thrilling double-bill of works by Kurtág and Benjamin under the direction of Jack Symonds, at the Sydney Festival 2014.

Wagner with a twist: Jack Symonds' bold response to Parsifal with Sydney Chamber Opera

Three days after seeing the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast version of Wagner’s Parsifal, I attended Climbing Toward Midnight, Jack Symonds’ compositional response to this same opera, directed by Netta Yashchin.