Paco Peña’s Requiem for the Earth celebrates the natural world with an exhilarating flamenco physicality, imaginative combinations of colour and moments of lyrical tenderness yet it’s also a gritty wake-up call.
The polished and coherent program presented easily assimilated miniatures across a range of styles.
There are so many poignant scenes, so many stories along the way, so many loves and losses in Tina's life, to bring her to the musical genius and legend she became.
Opera’s natural habitat may be metropolitan arts centres but the background to Opera Queensland’s Festival of Outback Opera is big sky country.
Adam Lopez has an astral, crystaline purity, Tobias Merz sounds like burnished silver, and Hartley Newnham like rolled gold.
This arrangement gives chamber musicians the opportunity to participate in Mahler's masterpiece, an opportunity which most of them have probably never had.