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Jul 1, 2024 | 
artshub.com.au | Diana Carroll
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) has enjoyed a wonderful series of concerts featuring the three dramatic Symphonies by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov. These concerts built on the success of last year’s series of three Rachmaninov piano concertos. And again, the ASO welcomed US conductor and concert pianist Andrew Litton to lead them in these works. Each performance featured a selection of works before the interval with the headline Symphony filling out the second half.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
artshub.com.au | Diana Carroll
The popular Rockhampton River Festival is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year with Riverfest X. The Festival marks and celebrates the significant transformation and growth that the Rockhampton region – and the local community – has experienced since the first iteration of the Festival back in 2014. Riverfest X gets off to a great start on Friday 26 July with the Country on Quay opening night concert and an outstanding lineup of country music talent.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
artshub.com.au | Diana Carroll
Cabaret star Christina Bianco is a self-confessed ‘diva-holic’. An American actress and singer now living in London, she’s starred in musicals on stage and on television and is excited to be cast in a new Andrew Lloyd Webber show later this year. Bianco came to fame as a vocal impressionist with her many YouTube videos of those divas she so admires.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
artshub.com.au | Diana Carroll
The 2024 Adelaide Cabaret Festival got off to a glittering start with the annual Variety Gala at the Festival Theatre last Friday night. The fun began before you even walked in the door, with the fabulous Adelaide DJ Ruby Chew spinning tunes on the Plaza forecourt as photographers snapped the glitz and glamour on the red carpet. Adelaide audiences aren’t always known for dressing up, but this is one night when all the sequins and sparkles came out to play.
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May 26, 2024 | 
artshub.com.au | Diana Carroll
A comic operetta in three acts by Leonard Bernstein, based on Voltaire’s philosophical tale Candide ou l’Optimisme from 1759, Candide first opened in Boston in 1956. Although not a hit initially (and that’s being polite…) the revised version, with input from musical theatre legend Stephen Sondheim, opened in New York in December 1973 and was met with hearty applause. This version has played widely ever since.
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May 16, 2024 | 
artshub.com.au | Diana Carroll
The first two places I look for in a new city are always an art gallery and a library. As well as loving these institutions, they both reveal much about a place and its sense of self. Here are seven of my favourite galleries from my travels:The French capital is a dream for art lovers with so many wonderful galleries and museums. And while the Louvre and the Musée D’Orsay are at the top of everyone’s list of places to go, there are many more to see.
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May 6, 2024 | 
artshub.com.au | Diana Carroll
Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä is widely acclaimed as “the greatest living Sibelian” so it was apt that his debut appearance here with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) should feature the music of his countryman Jean Sibelius. Vänskä’s considerable Sibelius repertoire includes prestigious recordings of all the symphonies and tone poems, and countless live performances. Here in Adelaide we were treated to Lemminkäinen,a suite of four magical tone poems from the late Romantic period.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
artshub.com.au | Diana Carroll
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO)’s third Symphony Series concert for 2024 did indeed live up to its “grand” title with two fascinating premieres alongside two wonderfully regal Baroque favourites. And while there seemed to be little to connect the works, musically or historically, the whole still came together as a rewarding and engaging program, due in no small part to the British conductor Stephen Layton and the soloist, soprano Sara Macliver.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
artshub.com.au | Diana Carroll
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO)’s Artist-in-Association for 2023 and 2024, Emily Sun, is always popular with the ASO audience. Her performance of Max Bruch’s wonderful Violin Concerto No.1 was the centrepiece of this Symphony Series 2 concert, headlined Horizons. Considered one of the highlights of the violin repertoire, the masterful First Concerto takes us on a deeply emotional journey from its soulful opening to its intensely energetic close.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
sydneyartsguide.com.au | Diana Carroll
Aging antiques dealer Arthur Crockleford has every reason to suspect someone is out to get him. When the worst happens and he is murdered in his shop late one night, it’s left to his best friend Carole and her niece Freya to follow his cryptic clues and uncover the truth. Freya and Arthur have history: Twenty years ago she was his protégé and colleague in the often shady world of antiques hunting.
