Opera Australia and GWB Entertainment have delivered a beautifully realised, fully staged original take of this musical that is now as iconic as the film on which it was based.
The rising of The Sun and the sunset of England’s traditional press peerage is the enthralling, sometimes appalling story presented in James Graham’s sprawling, epic play, Ink.
A roller coaster of rock n roll, rap, ballad and a little bit of torch, Ride the Cyclone is an hour and a half of big dipper thrills and cathartic confession.
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 production of Death of a Salesman illuminates and resonates with intelligence, virtuosity and authority.