Sydney Reviews

Details: Eliza Eggler; 30 March 2008

The Pilgrim’s Progress | Opera Australia

Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams' might have been an atheist, but his opera ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ is a religious work of great depth and beauty.

Details: Augusta Supple; 28 March 2008

Men, Love and the Monkeyboy | Shaman Productions

What do men talk about? More curiously: What do men talk about with each other? Are men as basic and simple as clichés suggest?

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 27 March 2008

The fact is Seasick’s legend by far transcends his ability and distinction, as a bluesman. He’s, well, ordinary.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 26 March 2008

There is tenderness in the telling of both characters and both actors vie, audaciously and aggressively, for the prize for most richly realising their assigned character

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 21 March 2008

Ruthie Foster’s latest album is eponymous, save for the fact her name is prefaced by ‘The Phenomenal’. She is.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 21 March 2008

Maybe it’s a case of ‘the family that plays together, stays together’. Whichever way you look at, the Wainwrights are a prodigious family.

Details: Ashley Walker; 20 March 2008

Often the cruellest reaction to those around you is to live totally for yourself

Details: Eliza Eggler; 19 March 2008

Sublime | Katie Noonan & Australian Chamber Orchestra

The programme entitled ‘Sublime’ encompassed five centuries of English song and included works from Henry Purcell to Radiohead.

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