Music / CIMF Concert 6: “Dreaming Across the Horizon (Memories of Childhood),” Fitters’ Workshop, April 30. Reviewed by JUDITH CRISPIN
opera / “The Vow”. At The Playhouse, October 8-9. Reviewed by Clinton White
TOBIAS Cole is not only one of Canberra’s finest musicians, with a reputation extending overseas, but he is also one of our greatest musical enthusiasts, as his newest project shows. Mindful in part of the […]
theatre / “Shakespeare: The Sonnets Out Loud”. Directed by Dianna Nixon, at The Street Theatre. April 30 only. Reviewed by John Lombard.
music “From Byrd to Britten,” Ainslie Arts Centre, April 2-3 only. Reviewed by Helen Musa
CANBERRA Choral Society is celebrating the beauty of English choral music in a demanding concert at Ainslie Arts Centre this weekend. The exquisite “Mass for Five Voices” by William Byrd, they’re saying, transcended the tumultuous […]
“LIKE ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ only much more dignified” is how one daring critic described Handel’s “Messiah”, the most performed piece of choral music ever written. After a smash hit premiere in Dublin 1742, “Messiah” […]
CANBERRA Choral Society joins the Song Company this week in “Double Trouble,” a celebration of the seventieth birthdays of musical brothers, Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith. Archly, the concert features many ‘doubles’ — two brothers, two […]
music Handel’s “Hercules” Canberra Choral Society Directed by Tobias Cole, conducted by Brett Weymark At The Playhouse, May 30. Reviewed by Judith Crispin
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music “Alexander Balus” Canberra Choral Society At The Playhouse, September 20. Review by Clinton White
TOBIAS Cole seems like a man with a mission – two missions, in fact. Fresh from playing the title role in State Opera SA’s August production of Philip Glass’s opera “Akhnaten”, where director Leigh Warren […]
CANBERRA artists get around: countertenor, Tobias Cole is preparing for his title role in “Akhnaten” in the August production by the State Opera South Australia, part of the “Glass Trilogy” and, in Britain, soprano Amanda […]
“SING! – just for the fun of it,” Canberra Choral Society is shouting out loud as it invites keen Canberrans to join in the world’s most pleasurable activity this Sunday. Singing in a group gives […]
music “Canberra Voices, the Sound of our City” Canberra Choral Society and associates, At Belconnen Arts Centre, March 22. Reviewed by Judith Crispin
TWO Canberra police officers were found guilty of Common Assault in the ACT Magistrates Court this morning (April 27). While a guilty verdict has been made, ACT Policing says these charges are before the ACT […]
THIS Sunday morning, April 29, it will be exactly three years since artist and convicted drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran was executed by a firing squad on Nusa Kambangan Island in Indonesia. To mark the third […]
A DEEP understanding of how tough parenting can be along with a passion for supporting pregnant and parenting mums in crisis is what drives Sarah Kelly, president of Karinya House management committee. Sarah will speak […]
IT’s an indication of how politically difficult the terrain is for the Coalition that Scott Morrison has faced a hard time defending the decision to drop a planned tax hike. Morrison explains abandoning the rise […]
FOLLOWING the ACT government’s decision to allow a pill testing trial at this weekend’s Grooving the Moo festival, shadow Attorney General Jeremy Hanson has described the initiative as irresponsible and potentially illegal. “The Labor-Greens government […]
