Articles by Lawrence Gibbons
Opera House launches attack on gay group
In the lead up to this year’s festive Mardi Gras season, the Sydney Opera Trust sent a ... Read more
Wed February 1st, 2012 - 1 Comment
TURANDOT
Turnandot was Puccinni’s final, uncompleted opera, composed in the 1920s as the last of the grand ... Read more
STORY OF A RABBIT
In the Story of a Rabbit, Hugh Hughes jumps between two separate encounters with death. In ... Read more
THE LOVE OF THE NIGHTINGALE
The Love of the Nightingale, the opera in two acts by Richard Mills (who also conducted the ... Read more
DON GIOVANNI
The buffed and barely clad Kiwi baritone, Teddy Tahu Rhodes makes a perfect Don Giovanni. Mozart’s ... Read more
LAKMÉ
Emma Matthews cements her international reputation as one of Australia’s best sopranos in the leading role of ... Read more
Sixteen Years of Printing the News and Raising Hell
Sixteen years ago this week, the first edition of the City Hub hit the street. Since August ... Read more
OF MICE AND MEN
More known for directing movies, Bruce Beresford’s production of Opera Australia’s Of Mice and Men is ... Read more
LA BOHEME
Gale Edward’s much heralded production of La Boheme is a perfect winter’s tale. Opening in a freezing ... Read more
CAPRICCIO
Capriccio was Richard Strauss’ final opera, written during composer’s 'Indian summer' when he was 78-years-old and ... Read more
Arts & Entertainment
Music
DEATH GRIPS - THE MONEY STORE
After attracting a lot of attention for ...
Read moreJULIA HOLTER - EKSTASIS
Swirling sounds of multiple melodies and many ...
Read moreTHE BLACK SEEDS - DUST AND DIRT
New Zealand reggae-soul hard hitters The Black ...
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Theatre
STRANGE INTERLUDE
Known as American dramatist Eugene O’Neill’s 1923 ...
Read moreWHEN DAD MARRIED FURY
When your banker dad who has a ...
Read moreREASONS TO BE PRETTY
Reasons To Be Pretty certainly opens with ...
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Events
SYDNEY WRITERS' FESTIVAL: your week sorted with our shortlist
May 14: National Biography Award It’s hard to ...
Read moreTHE WRITER'S PLAYROOM: BENITO DI FONZO
Playwright, poet and performer Benito Di Fonzo ...
Read moreWEATHER FESTIVAL
MY 21st birthday party involved a lot ...
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Comedy
BOB DOWNE'S 20 GOLDEN GREATS
Bob Downe is back and with him ...
Read moreTHEATRESPORTS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Leave the maroon and blues at home ...
Read moreTOMMY DEAN
It’s hard to forget this United States-bred, ...
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Books
THE PRIVATE, THE PUBLIC, AND THE LINE IN BETWEEN
You know that old line, ‘whoever invokes ...
Read moreBEHIND THE LINES
Published in newspapers, journals and online, cartoons ...
Read moreAN EVENING WITH RICHARD DAWKINS
Richard Dawkins is not one to shy ...
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Exhibitions
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
While Harry Potter die-hards may still be ...
Read moreHUNTERS HILL ART EXHIBITION
Hunters Hill, the little suburb that could. ...
Read moreEXPOSED
It’s fitting that the Latin root for ...
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Movies
DARK SHADOWS
Every yahoo off the street knows you ...
Read moreTHE DICTATOR
Critics will tear this film apart. The ...
Read moreSYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: INFINITE STORIES
When you’re faced with a film festival ...
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