Don Giovanni
West Australian Opera’s 2018 Season, The Year of the Free Spirit, comes to a stunning conclusion with its October presentation of the timeless Göran Järvefelt production of Mozart’s greatest opera, Don Giovanni. Based on...
Category: Performance
Layla and Majnun
The famous love poem is brought to life through Azerbaijani singing and music, with Yoyo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble and the Mark Morris Dance Group from New York. The show opens with guest artists Kamila Nabiyeva and Miralam...
Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art set to take over Carriageworks
Running from 18 October at Carriageworks, Performance Space is counting down the days to opening night of the 2018 Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art – an inspiring program of innovative new work by acclaimed a...
Song for a Weary Throat
Fifteen bodies surface in the wake of a disaster. When all is lost, what keeps them afloat? Set in an abandoned dance hall that echoes with haunting airs, Song for a Weary Throat is a breathtaking work of physical and vo...
Pelleas and Melisande
In the 100th anniversary of the composer’s death, Victorian Opera presents a new production of Debussy’s rarely heard opera, Pelleas and Melisande, for two performances only on 11 and 13 October at St Kilda’s...
100 Keyboards
The music of multi-instrumental Japanese sound artist Asuna has reshaped multiple facets of the experimental music scene of Japan, from ambient and drone to improvisation. In an Australian premiere, Asuna’s sonic perform...
Flight
Caroline Brothers’ novel, Hinterland, was published in 2013. It is the story of two Afghani boys, Aryan and younger brother Kabir, travelling on foot, hoping to reach safety with family in the UK. Glasgow-based com...
Watt
Before Irish writer Samuel Beckett produced Waiting for Godot, he wrote the “novel” (to some a loose classification) Watt in bursts from 1941 to 1945. Barry McGovern has distilled the work into a 60-minute one-man show, ...
