Music reviewer SARAH EC BYRNE is living the dream at the Australian Opera's performance of Wagner's "Ring Cycle" in Brisbane.
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"In its first concert series returning from touring America and its New York debut at Carnegie Hall, the Australian Haydn Ensemble showed why it is so popular across the world," writes reviewer ROB KENNEDY.
BARRINA SOUTH reviews the National Gallery's summer blockbuster that features the work of indigenous artist Emily Kam Kngwarray.
ANNA CREER looks at the latest crime fiction worth a read these summer holidays…
GRAHAM McDONALD reviews the Canberra Choral Society’s "entertaining and varied" concert of mostly Christmas themed material.
LEN POWER reviews “Blown Away!”, the fifth of David Pereira's birthday year concerts.
ROB KENNEDY reviews a concert by David Yardley with Luminescence Chamber Singers at the Drill Hall Gallery.
DANTE COSTA reviews a solo guitar recital by Matt Withers at Wesley Music Centre.
SARAH EC BYRNE reviews "In Paradisum", a performance by the Canberra Community Chorale with chamber ensemble, at Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest.
The Christmas season has begun. LEN POWER reviews “O Magnum Mysterium” performed by the Oriana Chorale.
"Karen Vickery’s Lear is a triumphant revelation of deeply psychological motivations, feelings and responses that are embedded in the text but which have rarely been extracted." JOE WOODWARD reviews "King Lear" at The Q.
COLIN STEELE reviews two books with a seasonal theme. One reflects on how gifts are an integral part of human society, the other is a classic story of Christmas – a 'luxury' edition of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'.
