LIVE REVIEW // Bridget sees Verdi’s Otello in Monaco
BY BRIDGET O’BRIEN Otello Opera Monte-CarloCasino de Monte Carlo, 24 April On April 24, in the heart of Monte Carlo, Monaco, I felt as if […]
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Marina Prior: “Young singers should be prepared to do lots of hard work”
BY BRIDGET O’BRIEN Marina Prior left her music studies at university after two years. It didn’t stop her from picking up more than 30 lead […]
Duncan Rock wants you to hate yourself for liking Don Giovanni
BY BRIDGET O’BRIEN Brisbane! An operatic juggernaut of skill and panache is in town to rock the Opera Queensland stage. British/Australian baritone Duncan Rock […]
LIVE REVIEW // Alison goes to The Magic Flute
BY ALISON PARIS The Magic Flute Brisbane City Opera, directed by Chris Clement McNee The Sideshow, West End, 29 September 2018 Mozart’s Die […]
LIVE REVIEW // Bridget sees Stuart Skelton in Peter Grimes
BY BRIDGET O’BRIEN Peter Grimes Opera Queensland with Rory Macdonald (conductor), Stuart Skelton (heldentenor), and special guests Brisbane Festival QPAC, 22 September What’d you […]
Stuart Skelton on gang mentality and Peter Grimes
BY BRIDGET O’BRIEN UPDATE 15 JULY 2019: Stuart will revisit this role with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra this July 25 and 27. The dramatic colossus […]
Could we be approaching lieder all wrong?
BY BRIDGET O’BRIEN There is so much music that relies on the excavation of committed musicians to help it bubble back to the surface […]
LIVE REVIEW // Bridget goes to the QSO
BY BRIDGET O’BRIEN Bernstein at 100 Queensland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alondra de la Parra with Andreas Haefliger (piano), Brisbane Chorale, Voices of Birralee, […]
LIVE REVIEW // Bridget gets Mad for Love
BY BRIDGET O’BRIEN Mad for Love Sumi Jo and José Carbó with Guy Noble QPAC, 21 July The decadence was guaranteed the minute I […]
Effort and artistry with (amazing) baritone José Carbó
BY BRIDGET O’BRIEN He has entertained as Verdi’s Rigoletto, meddled as Rossini’s Figaro, and bullied as Mozart’s Count Almaviva. He has lost as Tonio. […]