This wrap of shows includes an electric performance by Culture Club at Rod Laver Arena and Maria Stuarda, starring a truly impressive Helena Dix.
was a particular highlight, incorporating a deviation into Wham’s similarly soul-inspiredThe encore begins with a massively rocking version of T.Rex’s, which amazed me. Surely they know it’s definitely getting played? Surely they want to look a little cooler and request a song which isn’t the band’s massive monster hit?
Eleanor Greenwood and Helena Dix perform as Elisabetta and Maria, two queens who in reality never met.The opera centres on two matters of fiction – a love triangle between Mary, Elizabeth and the Earl of Leicester, and a confrontation between the two queens, when in reality they never met. The compositional category within which all Donizetti operas fall, bel canto, relies on showstopping singing. If you’re not super into vocal fireworks, bel canto can be a bit boring. Not so with Helena Dix. Everything this style is about – technique, tone, text – Dix has got it. No note too high, no pianissimo too soft. She traverses the literal ups and downs of this extraordinarily demanding repertoire with apparent ease.
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