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- Danu Poyner
The last place I expected to hear a joke about the government's insulation scheme was in a performance of The Barber of Seville. But that was only one of many pleasant surprises in Melbourne Opera's latest production of Rossini's enduring classic.
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- Danu Poyner
Through its series of vignettes it manages to achieve a rare thing - seeing the world through another person's eyes - and life is never quite the same once you've experienced that.
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- Vito Mattarelli
This newly devised revue, uses the premise that while there are many shows out there that may have had less than successful Broadway runs, some have produced memorable tunes.
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- Bron Batten
The mythology that surrounds an artist has the potential to infiltrate or even eclipse the work that they produce.
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