26 OCTOBER 2024 – 9 FEBRUARY 2025 AGNSW Naala Nura (South Building) Lower level 2 Review by: Anthony Frater (Arts Wednesday) Every now and again a blockbuster exhibition comes along and lives up to the hype. Magritte, on now at the AGNSW is an extraordinary exhibition. A comprehensive retrospective showcasing many of the artists most […]
Thursday 31 October 2024 Bondi Pavilion Moira Blumenthal Productions Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) The Kingdom of Eucalypts is a powerful play that explores many controversial themes while telling the story of one of Australia’s best known writers, Miles Franklin. Playwright Alice Spigelman asks us to grapple with race, feminism, political ideology, the role […]
Wednesday 30 October, 2024 Sydney Symphony Orchestra Sydney Opera House Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Argentinian pianist, Ingrid Fliter gave a consummate demonstration of how to make the piano sing the way Frederic Chopin would have in her graceful performance of his 1st Piano Concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Brazilian conductor Eduardo Strausser […]
Saturday 26 October, 2024 Sydney Opera House Sydney Youth Orchestra Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Festival Chorus Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) When a significant musical work lies largely dormant for over 100 years, the question begs “Is it any good?” Well, yesterday the Sydney Youth Orchestra and the Sydney Philharmonia Festival Chorus proved a century […]
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National Gallery of Australia 29 June – 7 October 2024 Review by Anthony Frater. Arts Wednesday. They say every picture tells a story and this exhibition tells us why. If you haven’t had a chance to get down to the National Gallery in Canberra to see the Paul Gauguin exhibition, better hurry because there are […]
Museum of Contemporary Art. 27 September 2024 – 16 February 2025 Review by Anthony Frater (Arts Wednesday) When is film art or when is art film? Well it’s been a long time since art exclusively meant painting or drawing, nowadays everyone is an artist and everything is art, whether it be dance, film or music, […]
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Friday 20 & Friday 27 September, 2024 Sydney Opera House Sydney Symphony Orchestra Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Eminent British conductor and Sydney Symphony Principal Guest conductor, Sir Donald Runnicles presented two concerts of late Romantic and Impressionist music at the Sydney Opera House. Duruflé Requiem Fri 20 September The orchestration genius of Claude […]
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Sunday 22 September, 2024 Old Fitz Theatre New Ghosts Theatre Company Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Sitting, Screaming is a virtuoso theatre work for a solo actor that examines some dark themes in the life of a troubled teenage girl dealing with multiple distressing factors in her life as she edges towards adulthood. Writer, […]
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Wednesday 18 September, 2024 Roslyn Packer Theatre Sydney Dance Company Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) The Sydney Dance Company’s double bill, Twofold cements their reputation under the Artistic Direction of Rafael Bonachela as one of the premier contemporary dance companies in Australia. The opening work, Impermanence was choreographed by Bonachela and first conceived with […]
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Friday 16 August, 2024 St. James’ Church Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Chamber Singers Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) The queue to get into the St James’ Church was moving slowly as the distant thunder was rumbling. Fortunately we were all seated by the time the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Chamber Singers filed in to the choir […]
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Monday 12 August 2024 City Recital Hall Council: Pekka Kuusisto & Gabriel Kahane Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Council is the musical duo of Pekka Kuusisto & Gabriel Kahane. Their song-writing is original but somehow assuringly familiar and the songs are interspersed with classical music both old and ultra-modern. The overall effect is a […]
Wednesday 7 August 2024 Sydney Opera House Sydney Symphony Orchestra Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Violinist Augustin Hadelich’s performance of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was a virtuosic performance of great proportion, it took our appreciation of this much loved concerto to a new level. From the opening bars we […]
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