THEATRE Belvoir brings back Bell
YOU MIGHT say there’ll be something for everyone in the Belvoir Street Theatre’s major productions scheduled for 1990,…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1989
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LIFE Arts THEATRE Life at the Stables after the crash
THE BELEAGUERED Griffin Theatre, which found itself earlier this year without product or money to carry on presenting…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →On Disc Brahms: Symphonies 1/2/4. Columbia Symphony Orchestra/ Bruno Walter. CBS Maestro. MYK44827/44870/44776. (46/51/56 mins) Recorded 1960
The excellent mid-price Maestro series continues to produce some real gems. Nothing could be more appropriately titled…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →BALLET Murphy’s masterwork as thrilling as ever Some Rooms Sydney Dance Company Opera Theatre Sydney Opera House
I WENT to see Graeme Murphy’s Some Rooms scarcely hoping it would prove the thrilling experience it was when I first saw…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →THÉÂTRE "Le pied dans le bol"
Une pièce comique, à deux personnages, qui plaît tant aux grands qu'aux et qui fait rire dans n'importe langue, telle est "Le pied dans…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Arts OPERA Never mind the quality — it’s Aussie Under Threat Sydney Metropolitan Opera Parade Theatre
THE METROPOLITAN opera appeared for the first time in Australia in the humble Parade Theatre, Kensington…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Opera Collection Kurt Weill: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny. Lotte Lenya/ Heinz Sauerbaum/Gisele Litz/ Horst Gunter et al/North West German Radio Chorus and Orchestra/Wilhelm BrucknerRuggerberg. CBS Masterworks-M2K77341. 2 discs (136 mins.). Recorded 1956
NO OPERA is more representative of place and period — Berlin in the 1920s — than the Weill/Brecht…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →THEATRE Life after Williams
IT WAS very civil of Patrick Corrigan “of the Glen Street Theatre” to invite yours truly to a cocktail party at the theatre (in Frenchs Forest, Belrose, or…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →THEATRE Talent out of the west Top Girls by Caryl Churchill Theatre Nepean at Bay Street Theatre
WITH THE spotlight firmly on Nida, Sydney’s and Australia’s premier training ground for people with their sights on a professional career in the dramatic…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Temples rejoice as the Jubilee begins Concert celebration
NSW PROGRESSIVE Judaism’s golden jubilee got off to an enthusiastic start in the presence of Israeli Ambassador Zvi Kedar last week with celebrations at Sydney Town Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →THEATRE Just Between Ourselves by Alan Ayckbourn Ensemble Theatre
BRITAIN’S Alan Ayckbourn, who at last count had had 37 plays professionally produced and has been translated into 26…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Arts Entertaining White THEATRE Happy birthday to no one The Ham Funeral by Patrick White Sydney Theatre Company at The Wharf
IT IS tempting and would be facile to go along totally with the comment of a colleague on the way to the bubbly party at The…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →THEATRE Bizarre Belvoir offering The Wolf’s Banquet Belvoir Street Theatre
WHAT A bizarre little play The Wolf’s Banquet is. The latest offering from the Belvoir theatre, it is the last in the Director’s…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →THEATRE Finally, a great play A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt Theatre Nepean at Bay Street Theatre
ROBERT BOLT is noted as a stage writer for The Flowering Cherry and A Man For All Seasons. That would be enough to…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →THEATRE Unstuffy Priestley at his best When We Are Married by J.B. Priestley Northside Theatre Company Marian Street Theatre, Killara
THIS PLAY, written in 1938 and set in a Yorkshire town in 1908, has again been dubbed “oldfashioned” and “dated”. Of…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →On Disc Rossini: II Barblere Di Siviglia. Maria Callas/Tito Gobbi/Luigi Alva/Fritz Oilendorf/Nicola Zaccaria/Philharmonia Orchestr a&Chorus/Alceo Galliera. EMI.747634-8.2 discs (130 mins). Recorded November 1957. II Barblere Dl Siviglia: Cecilia Bartoll/Leo Nucci/ William Matteuzzi/Enrico Flssore/Paata Burchuladze/ Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro Communale Di Bologna/ Giuseppe Patane. Decca. 425 520-2. 3 discs (160 mins). Recorded June 1988
SUPERBLY remastered in digital sound, EMI accommodates this evergreen…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →People Communicating through dance
COMMUNICATION HAS become the buzz word of the 1980s, important in an increasingly alienating world…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Cbs Opera Collection Puccini: La Rondine. Kiri To Kanawa/ Placido Domingo/ Marianna Nicolescu/ Lilian Watson/David Rendall/Leo Nucci/ London Symphony Orchestra/Ambrosian Opera Chorua/Lorin Maazel. CBS.M2K37852 2 discs (103 mins). Recorded 1983
Originally planned as an operetta for Vienna (Puccini’s answer to Lehar) as a…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →THEATRE “Le pied dans le bol”
"Le pied dans le bol" qui sera présentée le 15 décembre à 19H 30, l'Alliance française de Sydney, est une pièce muette à deux personnages,…
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