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Most mature movie goers will have fond memories of the John Travolta smash hit movie Saturday Night Fever, full of Bee Gees classic songs. Now a musical, it is currently lighting up the stage of the Athenaeum Théâtre.
Shakespeare it isn’t, and I think it’s fair to say it’s a juke box musical with a big heart. And that’s what makes it worth seeing.
Essential for every music festival is a Festival Artist, a drawcard and flag bearer of distinction, who represents what the festival stands for. Since their formation in 1995, Ensemble Offspring have shown much flair, dynamism, charisma and innovative “trail-blazing” in performances, making them a perfect choice to be this year’s Festival Artists. With over 350 commissions an...
Already highly welcomed and applauded in the Peninsula Summer Music Festival’s Opening Concert, here was a chance to hear two principal performers from the Opera Gala, nicely staged in the unique architecture and design of the intimate concert room in the Moorooduc Estate.
Program notes described today’s music as “communicating the essence of the human condition, w...
In the heat of summer, the coolest place to be to start the New Year is on the Mornington Peninsula for eight days of a classy and wonderful variety of twelve concerts at eight grand venues. Musicians Melissa Doecke and Ben Opie have the winning edge as highly experienced directors who bring not only highly acclaimed international and Australian artists to this established an...
Ten years after establishing the OperaChaser Awards in 2015, Melbourne opera critic and “opera tragic”, Paul Selar, has brought together a number of local opera critics to participate in the inaugural OperaChaser Critics Awards: the OCCAs.
As a member of this group, and a devotee of opera and classical singing, I have had the privilege of discussing the relative mer...
