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Offenbach, La Vie Parisienne
It’s not often in Australia that we get to see full Offenbach operas, or much of his repertoire in fact. After watching this, I feel that is a real shame. With great humour and some stunning vocal displays this modern…
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
I don’t think I have ever seen a more beautiful Romeo and Juliet than this production from the Royal Ballet. Not just in ballet, but film and theatre as well these two were tear-jerking-ly gorgeous. Tamara Rojo looks 16 years…
Mozart, Magic Flute
Mozart’s operas are constantly performed around the world and the Magic Flute jockeys with the Marriage of Figaro to be the favourite. In this performance from the Royal Opera House in Convent Garden Colin Davis leads a strong cast in…
Puccini Tosca, Live at the Met
The productions from the Metropolitan Opera in New York are always lavish and completely over the top, just the way we like Opera. Here we have Karita Mattila in the title role of Tosca, although I had never heard of…
Bartok, Bluebeard’s Castle
Whenever I hear the words ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ I get a shiver down my spine thinking of the wives, all gone and the secrets that lie in the dungeons. This part cinematic, part stage production from Miklos Szinetar and Sir George…
Verdi, I Vespri Siciliani
I always forget how many operas Verdi wrote, until I come across a little gem like this one. Written in the French tradition of Grand Opera, it’s original French libretto was replaced with an Italian soon after it’s initial premiere…
Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur
I am unfamiliar with the works of Francesco Cilea however this opera, Adriana Lecouvreur captured my imagination almost straight away, being somewhat like the bio-pics of yesterday’s world, based upon the life of French actress, Adrienne Lecouvreur. And as in…
The Silver Door by Emily Rodda
It was quite thrilling knowing as I was about to open Emily Rodda’s The Silver Door that inside was a quiet, thoughtful boy named Rye reaching out to enter a silver door of his own which just like the book…
10 Futures by Michael Pryor
Who knows what our future holds? Is it s post-apocalyptic world where people have reverted back to a life of farming on golf courses and trading the broken technology of our past? Or is it a society in which artificial…
The Greatest Liar on Earth by Marc Greenwood and Frane Lessac
If somebody told you they’d seen a flying wombat, and that they’d been welcomed by a tribe of cannibals, you might call them a liar.
The Greatest Liar on Earth is the story of one such man: Louis de Rougemont…
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