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Bloody brilliant or toothless? Cynthia Erivo’s Dracula – reviews roundup

The Wicked star plays all 23 characters in a hi-tech London staging of Bram Stoker’s novel by Kip Williams. Here’s a bite-sized look at the critics’ verdicts

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18

Opera Australia gives us a rocking Carmen for the post-#metoo era

The story of Carmen, in the 19th century opera by French composer George Bizet, is, at its simplest, the story of a developing tension between Carmen, a stereotypically racialised woman attempting to break free from society’s impositions and her already-written fate.

The Conversation · Jul 21, 2025

Australia engaged in ‘unprecedented’ level of surveillance of Chinese flotilla, Marles says – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Jun 9, 2025