Mietta O'Donnell

A sample of the entertainment programme she organised for Mietta's - these events (and others) took place from June thru August in 1994

Three Feydeau farces - staged play reading

Tony Delarte - cabaret

Wendy Harmer - Love Gone Wrong

Kate Ceberano - singer

Ben Martin piano, Hartmut Lindemann viola

Maggie Miller reads Molly Bloom

Maireid Sullivan - Irish songs

New Tango Quintet - tribute to Astor Piazzolla

John O'Donnell harpsichord

Yu Jixing tenor, Sharon Prero soprano

Russell Smith and Friends - R & B

Paul Grabowsky Trio and Shelley Scown

Debra Byrne - singer

Tony Gould's Creative Music Series

Tiddas - vocal trio

Flacco reads Flacco with "Bob"

Three Chinese Tenors (a creation of Mietta and Linnhe Robertson of the VSO)

David Malouf

The Red Onions - traditional jazz

Jex Saarelaht and Friends including Linda and Vicka Bull, Chris Wilson, Ross Hannaford and Paul Madigan

Pask on Pavlova - commemorating her last Australian performance

Christine Sullivan - singer

Andrew Pendelbury and Doug de Vries - guitars

Yvonne Kenny soprano

Pick of the Banjo's with Les Murray - National Book Council reading

Wednesday Writers, Morris Lurie and Laurie Clancy

Wanderlust "Maw Maw Maw" Readings

Women of The Chain Readings

Crying in Public Place, Nude Rain, Sister Moon, Verandah Jam, Arramaida - a capella vocal groups

Lauris Elms soprano, Len Vorster piano

Spiros Rantos violin, Michael Rodgers

"Loot" with Michael Veitch, Marg Downey, Geoff Brookes, William McInnes and Humphrey Bower - staged play reading

Binneas String Quartet

Miriam Gormley soprano

Kavisha Mazzella (singer), Hugh McDonald and Mathew Arnold (guitars)

Mary Kenneally, Witty Songs of Witty Women

Ronald Farren-Price piano

The Ormond College Choir

Sorcery and Survival - caberet and magic with Henry Maas and Sam Angelico

A Quarter Century of Jazz Excellence - The Ted Vining Trio

Elizabeth Anderson harpsichord

George Dreyfus composer

Kathryn Sadler and Brian Stacey LLoyd Webber Song cycle

Lisa Gerrard

Geoffrey Tozer piano

ABC broadcasts with Maria Vandamme

Miriam Gormley soprano, Jean Nemeyeth baritone, Keith Humble piano

Geoffrey Payne trumpet

Kathleen Southall-Casey soprano, Michael Terry tenor, David McSkimming piano

Ian Munro piano

Dinners organised and cooked by Mietta's chefs during the North Fitzroy years

Stephanie Alexander

Jacques Reymond

Fred Chalupa and Greg Malouf

Franco Biancotto and Winston Chung

Patrick Lapicier and Marcus Zihlmann

Jules Lavarack and Adam Wood

Patrick Watson, Judy Morphett and Paul di Deo

Great Chefs Dinners(1995) with

Donovan Cooke - est est est

Marieke Brugman - Howqudale Gourmet Retreat

Romain Bapst - Il Centro (Brisbane)

Cheong Liew - The Grange, Adelaide Hilton

Damien Pignolet - Bistro Moncur and Cleopatras (NSW)

Elizabeth Chong

David Thompson - Darley Street Thai and Sailors Thai (Sydney)

Herman Schneider - Arthurs

Stefano Manfredi - bel mondo (Sydney)

Tony Bilson - late Ampersand (Sydney)

Joan Campbell - food editor Conde Naste Publications (Sydney)

Phillip Searle - Vulcans (NSW)

James Tan - late of The Duck

Christine Manfield - late of Paramount (Sydney)

Forum with the Hon Michael Lee Federal Minister of the Arts

Melbourne Forum, Is Diplomacy Dead - Ian Lincoln former ambassador to Vietnam

Melbourne forum, the Sports Culture of Melbourne with Ted Hopkins

Melbourne forum Do We Really Need a City Square with Ros Hansen

Melbourne Forum Renewing the Nation for 2001 with Joan Kirner