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Reviewer BILL STEPHENS says National Opera's "pocket" production of the tuneful Donizetti opera, “The Elixir of Love”, is the company's most ambitious of these productions and arguably the most successful.
DANTE COSTA reviews “The Seasons”, a re-imagined, “all-Canberran” interpretation of Haydn’s “The Four Seasons” oratorio, by the Canberra Choral Society and National Capital Orchestra.
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Although Fijian-Australian Sitiveni Talei has been surrounded by music his whole life he never thought he d have a career in it, until the Opera came calling. [My] childhood in Fiji was full of music, every evening the guitars pop out. [but] coming from Fiji this whole concept of being a paid musician was very foreign to me, he said.
He moved to Canberra, Australia as a child and while at university applied and won a prestigious Opera scholarship which saw him study in Israel, the United States, and Europe. My father. is very very Fijian, very sensible. and he d been watching my emerging career and kept saying I could find you work elsewhere, Mr Talei told Pacific Beat.