Critic in training: Paul Selar reviews The King and I
Paul Selar is reviewing Opera Australia’s Melbourne Autumn season with guidance from professional critics, Opera Australia’s own music staff and writing professionals. Exotic, mesmerising and full of rich memories Review…
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Eleanor Wood is reviewing Opera Australia’s Sydney Winter season with guidance from professional critics, Opera Australia’s own music staff and writing professionals.
Read articleCritic-in-training: Eleanor Wood reviews Rigoletto
Eleanor Wood is reviewing Opera Australia’s Sydney Winter season with guidance from professional critics, Opera Australia’s own music staff and writing professionals.
Read articleCritic in training Paul Selar heads abroad
If you’ve been following our Critic-in-Training program, you might like to keep up with Paul Selar as he leaves us for a month on exciting opera travels to…
Read articleCritic-in-training: Paul Selar reviews Carmen
Georges Bizet never lived to see the worldwide success Carmen achieved after its 1875 Paris premiere. He also never visited Spain where its story is set…
Read articleCritic-in-training: The Turk in Italy Review
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival ends in April but O|A keeps the fun alive with this outrageous, long awaited national premiere of The Turk in Italy. This…
Read articleCritic in training: Eugene Onegin Review
Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky’s opera based on a novel in verse by the eminent Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin, is essentially about reflections on growing up, the impetuousness…
Read articleCritic in Training: Rigoletto Review
Paul Selar, newly appointed Critic In Training, shares his first impressions of Rigoletto Last Saturday night, at approximately 10pm, a brutal murder was witnessed at the Arts…
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