Music

Australian cities boast a rich culture of music embracing the entire gamut of musical tastes.

Sydney:

La Bohème: Puccini’s masterpiece of love and loss transfers superbly to Sydney Harbour – reviewed by Victor Grynberg.

March 26, 2018 by Victor Grynberg

This is the sixth opera since Opera Australia commenced their Operas on the Harbour in 2012 with Carmen repeated last year.

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The lion never got out of its cage: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

March 25, 2018 by Fraser Beath McEwing

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The Sydney Opera House organ recital is something like an annual pilgrimage for me.

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A thoroughly good weepfest: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

March 22, 2018 by Fraser Beath McEwing

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If you wanted to feel magnificently melancholic, the Sydney Recital Hall was the place to be last night. Russian-born violinist Alina Ibragimova joined the Australian Chamber Orchestra to present ‘Death and the Maiden” a title borrowed from Schubert’s Quartet in D minor arranged for string orchestra – which was the final work on the program.

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Magnificent Ferruccio Furlanetto lives and dies a great “Don Quichotte”: an opera review by Victor Grynberg

March 21, 2018 by Victor Grynberg

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After much anticipation, and a non-appearance on opening night due to indisposition, Sydney finally saw the great Ferruccio Furlanetto in the role for which, world-wide he has appeared and received rave reviews about.

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