Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 9th December 1989
Description: A Christmas Carol is a cabaret-style adaptation of Charles Dicken's classic tale by Michael Rodger.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 14th December 1988
Description: Two concerts of The Spirit of Christmas were held; the concert on the 14th December was also the Premier's Christmas Concert for Senior Citizens
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 17th December 1987
Description: For the first time in the Christmas concerts the Klais organ was played, and pre-performance entertainment by the Mistletoe Minstrels.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 19th December 1991
Description: The Spirit of Christmas celebrates the season with a concert of carols and traditional songs.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 14th December 1989
Description: Three concerts were programmed for the 1989 Spirit of Christmas with the audience encouraged to bring along flutes, triangle and recorders to play along to Rudolf the Reliant.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 18th December 1985
Description: The Spirit of Christmas 1985 was the first of the long-running series celebrating Christmas produced by the Queensland Performing Arts Trust . Concert master Kevin Power led the Queensland Symph...
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 31st December 1985
Description: New Year's Eve performance of Vienna Pops presented by 4BH and Queensland Pops Orchestra.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 16th November 1985
Description: Queensland Performing Arts Trust in association with Australian Broadcasting Corporation presents Memories & Melodies with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 1st December 1985
Description: Brisbane Light Opera Company and The St Lucia Orchestra present A Carol and Choral Concert.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Description: The Royal Queensland Theatre Company presents The Family Room by Ted Neilsen. This performance was the first use of the Lyric Theatre in Drama Mode.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 9th January 1986
Description: Shelley Winters in Neil Simon's hilarious comedy The Gingerbread Lady with a star all Australian cast.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 4th September 1985
Description: Harry Jay Seeing Stars was an exhibition featuring 46 framed photographs and documents tracing the work of photographer, Harry Jay. The exhibition was originally presented at the Performing Arts ...
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 10th October 1985
Description: This was the 19th Command Performance organised by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Alderman Sallyanne Atkinson. The Lord Mayor Command Performance had been staged since 1965, and the 19th Performance...
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 4th October 1985
Description: A Handel Celebration was a performance to celebrate the musician's 300th birthday. The performance included soloist Christopher Hogwood and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 3rd October 1985
Description: The Brass Band presented A Blast of Brass, a zany madcap musical combo for audiences. The Brass Band was a musical group of five classical trained musicians who together created organised chaos.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 19th January 1986
Description: The Brisbane performance of Håkan Hagegård's tour with The Australian Opera.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 3rd September 1985
Description: This exhibition displayed photographs and costumes from Dennis Wolanski, the Archies and Library at the Sydney Opera House and the Queensland Ballet. The exhibition coincided with the Bolshoi Bal...
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 10th October 1985
Description: This was an exhibition of Donato Sartori's Commedia Dell'Arte Masks. The masks were leather and were inspired by Italian Commedia masks from the sixteenth century. The masks were from the collect...
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 11th August 1985
Description: The foyers of QPAC were open from 12-4pm for the public in arrangement with the Queensland Cultural Centre Trust's activities to celebrate Show Week in Brisbane. There were multiple musical perfo...
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Date: 1st August 1985
Description: The Brass Band from San Francisco performed at a musical breakfast for guests. Bagels, Danish Pastries and Croissants were provided by Sheraton-Brisbane Hotel & Towers.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Series: Pre South Bank
Date: 11th December 1984
Description: A pre-opening invitation-only special concert in the Lyric Theatre featuring QPAT workers involved with the planning and construction of QPAC. Compared by Hugh Cornish, and featuring Brisbane Lig...
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Series: QPAC Opening Celebrations
Date: 21st April 1985
Description: The Three legends of Kra featured epic tales of Navajo Indians, Viking warriors and Japanese Samurai told through drama, visuals and music. The cast and crew consisted of 230 children from Brisba...
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Series: QPAC Opening Celebrations
Date: 21st April 1985
Description: This event was part of the Australian tour of the London based Grenadier Guards. The Band led the Street Parade on QPAC's Opening Day prior to their performance in the Lyric Theatre.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Series: QPAC Opening Celebrations
Date: 20th April 1985
Description: The Street Parade marked the start of a three week long Opening Celebrations Festival and involved the collective efforts of thousands of members of arts sport and community organisations. Led by...
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Series: QPAC Opening Celebrations
Date: 23rd April 1985
Description: The Royal Gala Concert marked the official opening of the Concert Hall attended byTheir Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Kent. The concert featured internationally renowed pianist Roger W...
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Series: QPAC Opening Celebrations
Date: 20th April 1985
Description: The Royal Festival Performance, directed by Stephen Hall, included every major choir and orchestra in Brisbane. The program featured a short film The Performing Arts in Queensland narrated by act...
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Date: 30th April 1985
Description: Storytelling sessions for pre-school children conducted by Doug MacLeod, courtesy of State Library of Queensland, and performances by Kite Theatre (30 April to 1 May 1985).
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Series: QPAC Opening Celebrations
Date: 21st April 1985
Description: Open Day at QPAC involved people queing in Melbourne Street from early morning waiting to inspect the new QPAC buildings, and approximately 20,000 people toured QPAC in six hours.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Series: QPAC Opening Celebrations
Date: 20th April 1985
Description: Following the Street Parade, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent stood on the Cremorne Theatre balcony for the RAAF flypast and at 2pm The Duke declared the QPAC building open, pr...
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Series: QPAC Opening Celebrations
Date: 5th September 1985
Description: This special concert featuring the Queensland Theatre Orchestra augmented to 36 players marked the Grand Finale to the Opening Celebrations of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
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Date: 20th April 1985
Description: Kids Gigs incorporated Choral Day, Pre-School Days, Art and Technology, Crystal Gutters and Danse Son et Lumiere featuring free music, theatre, dance, circus and multiarts events presented in QPA...
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Series: QPAC Opening Celebrations
Date: 5th August 1985
Description: A concert of music with nostalgic appeal for senior audiences planned by Major Colin Harper Director of the First Military District Band.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Series: QPAC Opening Celebrations
Date: 6th June 1985
Description: Concert featuring Scottish born folk singer-songwriter Eric Bogle known for his song 'And the Band played Walzing Matilda'.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Series: QPAC Opening Celebrations
Date: 28th April 1985
Description: Danse Son Et Lumiere combined the Queensland Youth Orchestra with the Australian Youth Ballet to produce two performances that fused elements of dance, music and videographics.
Format: EventRelated items: Calculating...Series: QPAC Opening Celebrations
Date: 26th April 1985
Description: A cabaret devised and performed by young unemployed people, initiated as a result of QPAT's invitation to local youth groups. The project involved a 12 week production period that resulted in the...
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Date: 10th May 1985
Description: Featuring a program of popular bands and performers.