The NSW Minister for Tourism, Jodi McKay, announced yesterday that in 2011, Sydney will host the World Premiere of a new musical, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO starring Anthony Warlow.
The Sydney Fringe and Sydney Festival have jointly announced that at the conclusion of the 2010 Sydney Fringe Festival, a $2,500 cash Independent Artist Prize will be presented to one of the festival entrants.
Each year during August and September, the world’s pre-eminent orchestras and conductors converge on towns and cities across Europe for the summer festival season.
A gifted embroider of words, Friel combines soft lyricism and hard meaning in his play, a tragical comical historical pastoral on a spree and spoiling for a spirited spar.
In the care of Pinchgut Opera’s director, Erin Helyard, this music, formulaic as it indeed is in some respects, sprang off the page into an experience rich in emotions.
Iolanthe and Janet Anderson work in cosmic, comedic accord, characterisation charismatic, timing impeccable, delivery precise, together a tour de force that ascends the cliché.
Blind faith and rational belief are always sparring partners in dramatic conflict and so it is here with the power play tinged with superstition and salaciousness.