Paul Selar @OperaChaser

Lots of opera in lots of places. My life of airports, opera houses, swimming pools and streetscape views. Reviewing opera for @arts_review and @LimelightArtsAu operachaser.blogspot.com.au/?m=1 Melbourne, Australia Joined May 2013

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Paul Selar @OperaChaser

4 days ago

Featuring the work of three world class choreographers, @TheAusBallet’s latest triple bill, entitled Prism, guarantees a range of responses from melting escapism to challenging uneasiness. My thoughts at #AustArtsReview: artsreview.com.au/prism/

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5 days ago

Opening night of @TheAusBallet’s triple bill, Prism @cityofmelbourne’s Regent. It’s going to be a stunning evening in the company of the art of 3 world class choreographers, a world class ballet company and the fab world class Regent Theatre.

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5 days ago

Tonight’s reason for heading out! australianballet.com.au/performances/p…

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Paul Selar @OperaChaser

2 weeks ago

With its current and thoughtfully considered staging of The Turn of the Screw and The Old Maid and the Thief, @IOperaAus welcomingly continues its objective to promote access to and interest in opera on an intimate scale. My thoughts at #ArtsReview: artsreview.com.au/the-turn-of-th…

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Paul Selar @OperaChaser

2 weeks ago

Thriller or not I’m not sure yet but @MJtheMusical’s @cityofmelbourne opening night is about to beat it at Her Majesty’s Theatre. And isn’t she ablaze!

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2 weeks ago

Back at @cityofmelbourne’s Athenaeum 2 for @IOperaAus’s opening night of director Robert Macfarlane‘s production of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. Time for a haunting, gothic tale to cap the evening.

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2 weeks ago

In a thoroughly entertaining and seamless affair, Lisette Bolton‘s direction of @IOperaAus’s production of Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief marries the composer’s broad and succulent musical palette with an always engaging and stylistically animated staging. Nice work, all!

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2 weeks ago

Presented by @IOperaAus, I’ve never had the pleasure of seeing Menotti’s 1939 radio opera The Old Maid and the Thief but here it is, in the intimate @cityofmelbourne Athenaeum 2 setting to cosy up to on a dark and damp evening.

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3 weeks ago

I haven’t laughed so much in the theatre for a long time. An uproarious spoof of a Hitchcock classic, The 39 Steps is a charmingly conceived show that zooms along with a smorgasbord of non-stop antics by a brilliant cast of four. Now playing @cityofmelbourne’s Comedy Theatre.

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3 weeks ago

Minutes away from stepping into the Melbourne opening of director Damien Ryan’s The 39 Steps here at the city’s Comedy Theatre. Need them to get me to 10,000!

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3 weeks ago

Tonight’s entertainment @cityofmelbourne’s Comedy Theatre should be fun! “Mix Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller with a dash of Monty Python-style chaos, and you get THE 39 STEPS.”the39steps.com.au

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Paul Selar @OperaChaser

3 weeks ago

Here’s a free, short concert presented by @NGVMelbourne and @MelbourneOpera associated with the gallery’s “Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends" by Jacopo Amigoni, painted around 1750–1752. Saturday, 20th Sept, 1:30 & 2:30pm. Definitely! ngv.vic.gov.au/program/melbou…

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4 weeks ago

Today’s streetscape view — the mishmash of residential homes strung along @YarraCouncil’s shortish Stillman Street, Richmond, with Stillman Cafe on the Burnley Street corner worth it having tried it out.

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a month ago

There are issues that could do with being addressed in @stateoperaofsa’s #TheMagicFlute but dir Shuang Zou’s work never skimped on imaginative ideas and whimsical humour that transformed the quotidian into something fantastical. My thoughts at #ArtsReview: artsreview.com.au/the-magic-flut…

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a month ago

After a little over two weeks and 7 flights behind me that all thankfully went to plan, I’m going home on @Qantas QF682 ADL-MEL for the lucky 8th. Hmm, but not going to be so lucky with the lousy weather!