Reviews

This dark Märchenoper or fairy-tale opera is presented by WAAPA Classical Voice Students and the WAAPA Symphony Orchestra and designed, constructed, and crewed by WAAPA Production and Design students.

One of the interesting aspects of this opera, written in the late 1800s and featuring a sibling pair, is that it was composed by Engelbert Humperdinck with the libretto written by his sister Adelheid Wette. This production has a strong sense of family in many senses of the word.

When Andrew Lloyd Webber and Julian Fellowes team up, the results of this ultra-conservative British duo, surprisingly, rock. 

The Next Generation School of Rock: The Musical, based on the 2003 comedy starring Jack Black, was embraced wholeheartedly by the Toowoomba Choral Society and hit all the right notes with its enthusiastic audience.

Robert Moses, an unelected city planner, was for forty years the most powerful man in New York.  In that time, he built parks, tunnels, bridges and over a thousand kilometres of freeways.  He destroyed swathes of tenements – and thus their often black or other minority communities – and replaced them with ‘public housing’.  In this way, he displaced up to two hundred and fifty thousand New Yorkers and revolutionised city planning in New York and across the US. 

New York critics in 1959 acclaimed Lorraine Hansberry’s classic as the Best Play of the Year.  Only 29, she was the youngest playwright and at that time the first Afro-American to win the award.