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The Sleeping Beauty (The Stuttgart Ballet), presented by The Australian Ballet, at Regent Theatre – ballet review

Alex First6 days ago6 days ago03 mins

Balletic excellence and stunning beauty characterise The Stuttgart Ballet’s adaptation of the classic fairytale popularised by the Brothers Grimm. With choreography by Marcia Haydée, after Marius Petipa, she and artistic director Tamas Detrich have crafted something quite delightful. It premiered in Stuttgart in May 1987. Unfolding in three acts, with two intervals, the first involving…

Pretty Woman: The Musical, at the Regent Theatre – musical theatre review

Alex First3 months ago3 months ago04 mins

There is so much joy in Pretty Woman: The Musical. I adore what the collaborators have done with the beloved story of the Hollywood sex worker and the wealthy businessman. It is based on the 1990 feel good romance, written by J. F. Lawton and directed by Garry Marshall, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere….

Copland Dance Episodes (The Australian Ballet) – ballet review

Alex First4 months ago4 months ago03 mins

Colour, movement and music to delight the senses. Modern balletic dance at its finest. A work of sublime beauty and integrity that has 30 captivating dancers entrancing the audience from a blank canvas. Save for lighting differentiation and enthralling music, their backdrop is an open stage. All the more reason to admire their endeavours. As…

Romeo and Juliet (The Australian Ballet), at the Regent Theatre – ballet review

Alex First4 months ago03 mins

The Australian Ballet’s glorious retelling of the classic Shakespeare tragedy Romeo and Juliet is colourful, powerful and passionate. This is a step back in time to wealthy, medieval Verona, where rivalries explode and danger lurks. The innocence of first love is shattered through the antipathy of the Montagues and the Capulets. The interpretation we witness…

Encore! Songs From The Musicals (Opera Australia), at Regent Theatre – musical theatre review

Alex First5 months ago5 months ago03 mins

Magnificent, rich, rounded voices against the backdrop of musical excellence. Clarity of sound, stunning solos, delicious duets and rousing three-part harmonies. But wait. There is more. The six artistes that take to the stage at the Regent Theatre are all leading performers who have fronted the biggest musicals. I speak of The Phantom of the…

Opera Australia’s 70th Anniversary Gala, at Regent Theatre – opera review

Alex First5 months ago5 months ago02 mins

What a privilege it was to be in the audience at the Regent Theatre to celebrate all that is grand in opera, at Opera Australia’s 70th Anniversary Gala. Indeed, it was a very special occasion, introduced by Opera Australia’s CEO, Alex Budd and hosted by ABC Classics’ Mairi Nicolson, resplendent in green. Her love affair…

La Traviata (Opera Australia) at Regent Theatre – opera review

Alex First5 months ago5 months ago03 mins

The full glory and emotional heft of Giuseppe Verdi’s fraught and dramatic love story La Traviata is magnificently captured by Opera Australia. I am in awe of the spine-tingling efforts of Australian/Mauritian soprano Stacey Alleaume, who is utterly captivating in the lead role. Her rich and rounded vocal tone reaches remarkable heights in a bravura…

Anastasia, at the Regent Theatre – musical theatre review

Alex First10 months ago10 months ago03 mins

Grand performances, stunning staging and striking costuming characterise a musical adaptation of the 1997 animated film of the same name. The story concerns a legend surrounding the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. The tale begins in St Petersburg in 1906 when the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna Romanov (Nancye Hayes) bids farewell to her youngest…

Orpheus & Eurydice (Opera Australia), at Regent Theatre – opera review

Alex First11 months ago11 months ago03 mins

Imagine losing the love of your life on your wedding night, only to have the chance to win her back from the underworld, subject to strict conditions. Surely, you’d back yourself. But wait, the story gets much darker because although you and your wife are reunited, the conditions are too much to bear. In short,…

The Barber of Seville (Opera Australia), at Regent Theatre – opera review

Alex First12 months ago03 mins

I can’t speak highly enough of the comic might of Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville (with libretto by Cesare Sterbini), as performed so adroitly by Opera Australia. If you have not seen this hilarious opera, let me draw a comparison to the cleverness inherent in arguably the finest popular British TV comedy Fawlty Towers….

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The Sleeping Beauty (The Stuttgart Ballet), presented by The Australian Ballet, at Regent Theatre – ballet review

Pretty Woman: The Musical, at the Regent Theatre – musical theatre review

Copland Dance Episodes (The Australian Ballet) – ballet review

Romeo and Juliet (The Australian Ballet), at the Regent Theatre – ballet review

Encore! Songs From The Musicals (Opera Australia), at Regent Theatre – musical theatre review

Opera Australia’s 70th Anniversary Gala, at Regent Theatre – opera review

La Traviata (Opera Australia) at Regent Theatre – opera review

Anastasia, at the Regent Theatre – musical theatre review

Orpheus & Eurydice (Opera Australia), at Regent Theatre – opera review

The Barber of Seville (Opera Australia), at Regent Theatre – opera review