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Holly Ferguson
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Opera Extravaganza at Government House Ballroom
David Cusworth
The West Australian
Music on the Terrace launches Government House Ballroom season with Opera Gala kaleidoscope of rising talents
A flurry of rising talent launched the Music on the Terrace season at Government House Ballroom with an Opera Gala on Sunday.Fifteen soloists and the OpusWA Arts Orchestra under artistic director Mark Coughlan’s baton reeled off a kaleidoscope of colour in favourite numbers each matched with a developing voice.Speed dating came to mind, though doomed to end in unrequited love — the life blood of opera.A drum roll as if for a magic trick opened the bill with Rossini’s Thieving Magpie Overture; brisk chords in the fanfare introduction testing the acoustic for a big band and an even bigger audience. Lyrical dance and forceful blastissimo alternated before a race to the finish.READ MORE...

