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- Nicholas Routley
This was a truly transformative experience.
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- Nicholas Routley
It is rare indeed to attend a work whose dramatic place is less than a kilometre from its place of staging.
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- Nicholas Routley
The Australian Haydn Ensemble are an early music orchestra at the top of their game.
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- Nicholas Routley
I doubt that this opera will ever make it into the standard repertoire. Yet congratulations to the Festival organisers for putting it on especially in the current circumstances.
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- Peter Bleby
There's a lot of shouting, there's a lot of baiting and insulting, there's a lot of teasing, provocation and vitriol, and a good measure of humour.
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- Peter Bleby
Carmina Burana by Carl Orff must surely be one of the gems of 20th century composition.
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- Peter Bleby
Bees, death, astrophysics, entymology, string theory, words, and most of all, relationships are all features of this engaging play, but you don't have to know anything about any of them to be able to enjoy this final production for 2021 of the Adelaide Rep.
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- Peter Bleby
There are multitudinous shows, concerts, plays and other performances that have been significantly stuffed around and/or cancelled because of Covid.
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