by Adrian Miller | Mar 8, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Classical, Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ ADELAIDE PREMIERE ~ GBR] Adelaide Town Hall – Auditorium, Thu 7 Mar. Celebrated British cellist Natalie Clein and the wonderful Russian pianist Katya Apekisheva take to the stage to present a varied but beautifully balanced program for their first national...
by Ruby Neimann | Mar 8, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews
[Contemporary Music ~ AUS] The Palais, Thu 7 Mar. Sarah Blasko’s one-night-only Palais performance had the audience enraptured. Listening to the people around me it seemed that everyone had a Blasko story – “I’ve seen her five/seven/eight times”. There was so much...
by Michael Coghlan | Mar 8, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
[THEATRE ~ AUSTRALIA] Odeon Theatre, Thu 7 Mar. You’re sitting near a total stranger. As time goes by it becomes weird not to talk so you make the tentative awkward attempt to strike up conversation. It’s trite to begin with – you talk about the time, public...
by Michael Coghlan | Mar 7, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
[THEATRE ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE ~ BELGIUM/GERMANY] Adelaide Festival Centre – Space Theatre, Wed 6 Mar. Technology has had a significant impact on live theatre, and when coupled together with the creative vision of director Milo Rau you get something quite special. The...
by Michael Coghlan | Mar 4, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Classical, Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ ADELAIDE PREMIERE ~ RUS] Adelaide Town Hall – Auditorium, Sun 3 Mar. Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery was founded in the late 14th Century. It is not clear how old the associated choir is but their main purpose has always been to sing the liturgy of the Russian...