Freeze Frame Opera’s kid-friendly version of Mozart’s Magic Flute has nothing on the original in terms of weird plot lines, presenting the music to a new generation in a production full of colour and movement
David Cusworth
Dramatic, romantic and lush, Elgar’s Violin Concerto fires a hometown boilover with soloist Laurence Jackson, WA Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alpesh Chauhan at Perth Concert Hall.
A flurry of rising talent launched the Music on the Terrace season at Government House Ballroom with an Opera Gala on Sunday.
Bright and bold Baroque strings set the scene for HIP Company’s vivid recreation of John Eccles’ 18th century opera Semele on Sunday.
Scintillating piano launches Mirabilis Collective’s season opener, Shimmer, at UWA’s Wigmore Studio.
Drama, passion, a tragic love triangle. The hallmarks of a grand ballet that make for a night of sumptuous storytelling. La Bayadere, The Temple Dancer, is an epic tale of forbidden love ...
Melinda Webster
Hearing British comedian and actress Dawn French mock herself for being an “absolute twat” repeatedly is the comic relief you didn’t know you needed this week.
Kellie Balaam
Four centuries wind back in Giovanni Consort’s timeless rendition of Requiem for an Empress at Guildford and South Perth this weekend.
Easter comes early to Perth Concert Hall when WA Symphony Orchestra and St George’s Cathedral Consort broke out the Gloria, missing from churches these past six weeks of Lent.
Bach’s distinctive contrapuntal rumble announces the Double Violin Concerto played by sisters Rebecca Glorie and Andrea Mendham with Fremantle Chamber Orchestra at the weekend.
Sun gently fades over a gibbous moon in an equinox sky as pastel shades light the stark walls of the Quarry Amphitheatre for Puccini — master of sublime arias and visceral “verismo” opera.
Smetana, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky ring the rafters of Perth Concert Hall with WA Symphony Orchestra under principal conductor Asher Fisch on Friday.
Bold chords trigger a flurry across the keyboard as the Emperor Piano Concerto rang out at Perth Concert Hall on Wednesday, with Kristian Bezuidenhout and Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Long Lost Loves (And Grey Suede Gloves) presents mezzo Anna Dowsley and pianist Michael Curtain in William Bolcom-Arnold Weinstein cabaret songs and a confected narrative at Perth Concert Hall for Musica Viva.
WA Symphony Orchestra’s season launch a warm welcome home to Perth Concert Hall for Noongar composer-conductor Aaron Wyatt, and his WA premiere, The Coming Dawn.
Artists Lior Attar and Lou Bennett channel Jewish and Yorta Yorta heritage through the story of Ngapa William Cooper, scored by Nigel Westlake for Australian String Quartet at Perth Concert Hall on Sunday.
WA Symphony Orchestra and a galaxy of Perth Festival stars farewell artistic director and conductor Iain Grandage at Supreme Court Gardens.
Rock-show lighting beams over stage and audience before Brooklyn Rider string quartet take Perth Concert Hall stage, exploding in an earthy folkdance from their native America.
Audience become actors, hunters become the prey in Sophia Brous’ Invisible Opera at Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre for Perth Festival.
Eucalyptus, a gothic folktale with music by Jonathan Mills and libretto by Meredith Oakes, opens as a tone poem and closes like a film score on its world premiere at Perth Concert Hall.
A Valentine’s Day theme launches Grove Classics’ 2024 offering with guitarist Don Candy and flautist Adam Lewin at Peppermint Grove’s Freshwaters Cafe.
Australian Chamber Orchestra’s River movie and score turn turbulent when sepia tint pollutes one half of the screen at Perth Concert Hall on Friday.
Packed houses at the Concert Hall for Perth Festival vouchsafe the hold Italian composer-pianist Ludovico Einaudi has on a global audiences.
Noongar opera comes of age at The Maj this week with Wundig wer Wilura, Gina Williams’ and Guy Ghouse’s legend of star-crossed lovers from Ballardong country, York.