Ben Apfelbaum

MY FAIR LADY COMING SOON TO THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

Anna O'Byrne
Anna O’Byrne
Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Deidre Rubenstein, Anna O'Byrne, Robyn Nevin, Reg Livermore and Mark Vincent
Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Deidre Rubenstein, Anna O’Byrne, Robyn Nevin, Reg Livermore and Mark Vincent

Featured pic- The leads Mark Vincent and Anna O’Byrne.

These were some of the photos that I took at the recent cast the announcement for the 60th Anniversary revival of Lerner and Loewe’s  My Fair Lady held at the Bennelong Restaurant at the Sydney Opera House. The production, to be directed by Dame Julie Andrews,  will  play the Joan Sutherland theatre at the Sydney Opera House from 30 August.

An exciting cast has been brought together for the production:- Alex Jennings as Professor Higgins, Anna O’Byrne as Eliza Doolittle, Reg Livermore as Alfred P. Doolittle, Robyn Nevin as Mrs Higgins, Mark Vincent as Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Tony Llewellyn Jones as Colonel Pickering, Deidre Rubenstein as Mrs Pearce, David Whitney as Karpathy and a very talented ensemble cast.

https://opera.org.au/whatson/events/my-fair-lady-sydney

Published by Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborland. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, united states, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication.