Festival Director: Stephen Hall
The 1987 Festival of Sydney had a particularly strong international program: from the United Kingdom the Festival presented Michael Clark and his dance company; from Chicago the Steppenwolf Theatre Company; from Eire the Druid Theatre Company; from Minneapolis, solo performer Kevin Kling, and from New York, Bill Irwin. Not to mention the distinguished Slovak Chamber Orchestra, superb English pianist John Bingham, and the 90 strong Pendyrus Male Voice Choir from Wales.
Locally, Theatre South made a welcome return from Wollongong and Brisbane’s Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe performed in Sydney for the first time.
Classical music found a new home with twilight recitals in the Vestibule at Sydney Town Hall, while Hyde Park Barracks transformed into the Bacardi Festival Club.
THEATRE
Conversations On A Homecoming
Druid Theatre Company
Lydia Breeze
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Desdemona & Othello
Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe
21A
Kevin Kling
Trumpets And Raspberries
By Dario Fo
Theatre South
The Regard Of Flight
Bill Irwin
DANCE
No Fire Escape in Hell
Michael Clark and Company
MUSIC
Australian Chamber Orchestra
The Song Company
Director: Charles Colman
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Countertenor: Andrew Dalton
Harpsichordist: Nicholas Parle
Australian Youth Orchestra
Conductor: Ronald Zollman
Organist: Christopher Dearnley
Mahler: The Resurrection Symphony
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, The Sydney Philharmonia Choir
Director: Peter Seymour OBE
Conductor: Stuart Challender
Soloists: Valerie Hanlon, Elizabeth Campbell
Organ: Christopher Dearnley
Slovak Chamber Orchestra
Symphony Under The Stars
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Stuart Challender
Twilight Recitals In The Vestibule: Beverley Bergen
Soprano: Beverley Bergen
Associate artists: Hartmut Lindemann (viola), David Bollard (piano)
Twilight Recitals In The Vestibule: COLLAGE
Twilight Recitals In The Vestibule: Dene Olding, Max Olding
Twilight Recitals In The Vestibule: I Solisti Sydney
Twilight Recitals In The Vestibule: Plectra Plectra
Twilight Recitals In The Vestibule: The Broken Consort
Twilight Recitals In The Vestibule: The Sydney Ensemble
Advanced Australian Fare
Sirocco, Papalote, Churinga, Judy Small, Redgum, The Bushwackers, Wedding Parties Anything, Nubrij
Christopher Dearnley
John Bingham
Maria Farandouri and her ensemble
Midsummer Jazz
Lee Barnard's Band, Georgie Fame And His Australian Blue Flames, The Young Lions, the Dave Dalwitz Sydney Big Band, Tony Barnard Quartet, Northside Big Band
Music On The Move
Paco Peña
Pendyrus Male Voice Choir
OPERA
Opera In The Park - Madama Butterfly
Australian Opera, The Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra
Conductor: Stuart Challender
CELEBRATIONS
Australia Day Ceremony
Bacardi Festival Club
Diners Club Australia Day Picnic
The Lord Mayor's New Year's Eve Masked Ball
Writers’ Week
SPORT
Ferrython
Festival Schooner Race
Motorfest
Pylon To Park Minithon
Team Kawasaki Jet Ski
The BOC Challenge Around Alone
