Brisbane Reviews
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- Gillian Wills
Opera’s natural habitat may be metropolitan arts centres but the background to Opera Queensland’s Festival of Outback Opera is big sky country.
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- Nicholas Routley
Adam Lopez has an astral, crystaline purity, Tobias Merz sounds like burnished silver, and Hartley Newnham like rolled gold.
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- Gillian Wills
An elegant concert which delighted the audience.
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- Nicholas Routley
This arrangement gives chamber musicians the opportunity to participate in Mahler's masterpiece, an opportunity which most of them have probably never had.
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- Eden Bryant
Watching this charismatically chaotic legend crack jokes, it was the easiest hour I've spent laughing in a long time.
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- Gillian Wills
Hurrah for the bristling, infectious fun and gaiety and energy which breezes through the show’s dramatic arc and dance routines. The Australian cast is gifted.
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- Gillian Wills
There were remarkable and yet baffling qualities to this lavish production.
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- Nicholas Routley
This operatic cycle calls into question some of our basic assumptions about our world, assumptions which we may retain even when overtly denying them
This is not your dear old Grandmother’s Hamlet, it is your drunk Uncle’s, who remembers every Monty Python episode by heart.
Messa da Requiem was a quite stunning way to inaugurate the new auditorium.