What controversy? Festival boss Peter Sellars is back More than two decades since Peter Sellars parted ways with the Adelaide Festival, the lauded director is back - with some thoughts on saying the unsayable. AAP · Feb 27
John Adams: Antony and Cleopatra review – European premiere fuelled by molten chemistry In his ambitious and richly orchestrated 2022 opera, the American composer makes Shakespeare his own, with a star cast to match The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2023
Three million food parcels a year is ‘a bloodstain on our broken economy' In 2013, no one had heard of Daniel Blake yet. Now the North East, where the 2016 film shone a light on austerity, is a 'hot spot' for food parcels Daily Mirror · Apr 27, 2023
Best classical of 2022: Gustavo, Mark Morris and the CD discovery of the year LOS ANGELES — Here we go again. Last year at this time, we looked back at our buoyancy, gingerly bouncing back from COVID-19. But 2022 became, with new surges, a boomerang year. Somehow, though, the performing arts are getting through it. Los Angeles Times · Dec 7, 2022
Classical home listening: Julia Bullock’s Walking in the Dark; the Dudok Quartet’s Reflections The American soprano Julia Bullock ranges from John Adams to Sandy Denny on her lyrical debut, while the Dudoks pair Shostakovich and Bacewicz The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2022
Theodora review – bombs, a brothel and a brilliant cast Katie Mitchell’s modern-day staging of Handel’s oratorio is probing but problematic. The cast, however, is one of the finest ever assembled for the work The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2022