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Christian Spuck’s acclaimed Verdi Requiem wows the Adelaide Festival
An exciting festival event spectacularly highlights a great blend of European and Australian talent.
Into the Woods: Hansel and Gretel at Grange Park Opera
Darkness sits alongside comedy in a new production of Humperdinck's delicious children's opera.
Stark and grief-stricken: Dido and Aeneas at the Barbican
A semi-staged Dido from the Academy of Ancient Music and the speculative funeral music for a queen.
Monteverdi on a doughnut: Ulysses fails to thrill
A series of ill-advised staging choices leads to a disappointingly drab performance of Monteverdi's Homeric epic.
Bitter wine: WNO's Le Vin herbé
Frank Martin’s Le Vin herbé is as anti-Wagnerian a work as you could imagine. It is also the odd one out in Welsh National Opera’s “Love’s Poisoned Chalice” spring season.
Theodora: a musical, if not dramatic, triumph in Sydney
Handel's oratorio Theodora performed by Pinchgut Opera in Sydney was played and sung beautifully in a rather drab production. Kudos to the soloists especially countertenor Christopher Lowery and conductor Erin Helyard.