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
WILCO - THE WHOLE LOVE
After taking a break for much of ...
Read moreKEVIN HEARN - CLOUD MAINTENANCE
Kevin Hearn is probably best known as ...
Read moreMOUNT MOCHA KILIMANJARO - UHURU PEAK
Uhuru Peak is the second album from ...
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Theatre
THE TEMPERAMENTALS
It was a kind of code language; ...
Read moreTHAT PRETTY PRETTY; OR, THE RAPE PLAY
A reader in the New York Times ...
Read moreORDINARY DAYS
Ordinary Days is an original musical following ...
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Events
YARN STORYTELLING
If you’re a yarn spinner or a ...
Read moreTHE OXFORD ST DESIGN STORE
Aesthetes, crafters, design geeks and shop-a-holics stand ...
Read moreTHE POETRY OF MARDI GRAS
From its humble beginnings on the Eastside ...
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Comedy
RAW COMEDY 2012
If you can reel off the likes ...
Read moreLAUGH YOUR TITS OFF
Laugh Your Tits Off promises a, “very ...
Read moreWIL ANDERSON
Get ready for the witty, gritty and ...
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Books
BETTY CHURCHER
Like a surgeon losing the functionality of ...
Read moreTHEATRE, DEMOCRACY & THE END OF DISTRACTION
In my interview with 67-year-old Aboriginal actor ...
Read moreGUWANYI - POETRY IN THE PARK
The National Aboriginal Writers’ Festival is still ...
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Exhibitions
CRASH PAINTINGS
It may seem like an unlikely source ...
Read moreSAMUEL HODGE
Watching the red 'sold' dots breaking out ...
Read moreMORE THAN ALL THE LITTLE PEARLY SHELLS
More Than All The Little Pearly Shells ...
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Movies
JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is the ...
Read moreMAN ON A LEDGE
The premise had potential. Nick Cassidy (Sam ...
Read moreTHE ARTIST
Ever since silent films began their slow ...
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