Festival shows cancelled in wake of COVID clusters
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Days out from its opening Sydney Festival has been forced to cancel three acts due to hard border closures enforced in reaction to the city s COVID-19 clusters.
The withdrawals come as the Sydney Opera House has made the wearing of masks compulsory for all scheduled performances from Saturday.
Sydney Festival artistic director Wesley Enoch.
Credit:James Brickwood
Masks will be required inside the Opera House s foyers and theatres for all patrons aged 12 and over.
Regent Theatre, Mudgee, State Heritage listed
Roxy Theatre, Parramatta, built in 1930, State heritage listed
Theatre Royal Lithgow, closed for more than a decade, was recently up for sale with no takers
Yass Liberty, art deco theatre currently for sale
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The owner of the Enmore and Metro theatres wants to revive NSW s oldest theatre under a model that could extend the working lives of other dormant theatres across the state, including Parramatta s Roxy Theatre.
One week after the Minerva Theatre in Kings Cross was heritage listed, potentially saving the 1930s art deco building from redevelopment, Century Venues has stepped up its push to reopen the Victoria Theatre in Newcastle.
Arts community on tenterhooks after COVID-19 outbreak
Arts community on tenterhooks after COVID-19 outbreak
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The northern beaches COVID-19 outbreak has sent a chill wind through Sydney’s arts sector.
Just two weeks from its January 6 opening, Sydney Festival is closely monitoring the latest NSW Health advice to see if events can proceed or even with the same capacity audiences.
The Sydney Opera House remains open with performances proceeding as planned and the Sydney Theatre Company has confirmed its exemption to perform
The Picture of Dorian Gray at 75 per cent capacity still applies with the mandatory wearing of a mask.
Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis
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No matter how many times one listens to his music, Beethovenâs command of contrasting worlds and conflict is breathtaking, says Richard Tognetti, artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
The German master created some of the most sublime, sensitive, electrifying and fiery works, sometimes composed at the same time and premiered in the very same concert.
Still heard: Beethoven turns 250 this year.
âBeethoven is minimalist and maximalist, a composer of immensely conflicted personae,â Tognetti says. âBeethoven the moralist, environmentalist, philosopher; Beethoven the enraged, fulminating against the establishment and elites, hubristic, histrionic and yet tragic. Beethoven the disrupter and Beethoven the clarifier of musical intention.â�
Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis
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No matter how many times one listens to his music, Beethovenâs command of contrasting worlds and conflict is breathtaking, says Richard Tognetti, artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
The German master created some of the most sublime, sensitive, electrifying and fiery works, sometimes composed at the same time and premiered in the very same concert.
Still heard: Beethoven turns 250 this year.
âBeethoven is minimalist and maximalist, a composer of immensely conflicted personae,â Tognetti says. âBeethoven the moralist, environmentalist, philosopher; Beethoven the enraged, fulminating against the establishment and elites, hubristic, histrionic and yet tragic. Beethoven the disrupter and Beethoven the clarifier of musical intention.â�