Film, Music The Godfather Live: Sydney Symphony review (Sydney Opera House) Lloyd Bradford Syke The Godfather, almost indisputably, stands as one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time; (the American Film Institute ranks …
Music, Stage La Boheme review (Sydney Opera House) Lloyd Bradford Syke It’s Rent, really. With these sets and costumes, high rent. I’ve lost count of the number of times this production …
Music, Stage ACO Underground review (Goodgod Small Club, Sydney) Lloyd Bradford Syke Richard Tognetti might be artistic director and lead violinist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra in all its guises, but, last …
Music, Stage Iphigénie En Tauride review (City Recital Hall, Sydney) Lloyd Bradford Syke There are two words that spring to mind when I think of opera. Pomp. And circumstance. Pomp, in light of …
Music Ben Folds with the SSO (Sydney Opera House) Lloyd Bradford Syke I didn’t expect to, nor did I hear it. Bitches Ain’t Shit, the perennially youthful-looking American singer-songwriter-composer-producer Ben Folds’ fearless …
Music SSO Tchaikovsky 5 James Ehnes plays Prokofiev review (Sydney Opera House) Lloyd Bradford Syke There’s a depiction on the cover of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s program for Tchaikovsky 5 (performed last weekend) which seems …
Stage The King and I review (Sydney Opera House) Lloyd Bradford Syke Since The King & I is set in Siam, it’s only appropriate I address the elephant in the room. Hello, …
Stage The Elixir of Love opera review (Sydney Opera House) Lloyd Bradford Syke Gaetano Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love was once the most popular opera around. It took just ten years (from its …
Music Mayakovsky opera review (Carriageworks, Sydney) Lloyd Bradford Syke It’s one of those uncompromisingly, stubbornly, proudly Russian names: Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky. Poet, playwright, actor … you name it. But …
Stage Don Giovanni review (Sydney Opera House) Lloyd Bradford Syke The curtain hangs at an angle, almost as if it’s been partially torn down, not completely obscuring the stage.
