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Classical Music, Opera
features

Marina Viotti and Christophe Rousset pay tribute to the great Pauline Viardot

Clive Paget talks to singer and conductor about the life of a 19th-century 'everywoman' and the challenge of matching her talents.

November 29, 2022
Classical Music
news

Deutsche Grammophon launches STAGE+

This swanky new subscription service includes live event streaming, a catalogue of major artists and much more besides.

November 25, 2022
Opera
news

Victorian Opera announces its 2023 season

Two world premieres, Mozart, and Shostakovich's hilarious operetta feature in Richard Mills' swansong season.

November 21, 2022
Classical Music, Instrumental
features

Roger Woodward on Prokofiev and a life with the great composers

The great Australian pianist on returning to his Chatswood roots and a lifetime of experience.

November 14, 2022
Classical Music
news

Australian National Academy of Music announces its 2023 program

From Adams and Crumb to Boulez and Björk, there's new music galore with 67 musicians acing 180 events in ANAM's 2023 season. When pressed, AD Paavali Jumppanen adds his top 5 picks.

November 10, 2022
Opera
features

Peter Gelb on the ins and outs of the Met’s new cinema season

The Met's General Manager on season details, the slow return of audiences, new music that does "the shocking thing of pleasing audiences" and the Netrebko dilemma.

November 9, 2022
Classical Music, Orchestral
features

Chi-chi Nwanoku: It’s criminal we don’t all know Coleridge-Taylor

The founder of London’s Chineke! Orchestra explains her passion for a Black British musical icon, whose music, she believes, should be much better known.

October 25, 2022
Classical Music
CD and Other Review

Review: Reissues: Bright and colourful discoveries from the Amazon to Paris

Phillip Scott explores Heitor Villa-Lobos’s string quartets and Diaghilev’s musical legacy.

October 18, 2022
Chamber, Classical Music
news

Musica Viva Australia announces its 2023 Season

Returning giants, like Garrick Ohlsson, rub shoulders with fresh young talent and artists like Cédric Tiberghien and Jean-Guihen Queyras.

October 12, 2022
Classical Music
features

Music for the Sistine Chapel gets a hearing down under

Ahead of their 10th Australian tour, the Tallis Scholars founder illuminates the murky world of Renaissance art and politics.

October 4, 2022
Opera
Live Review

Review: Aida (Royal Opera House, London)

Robert Carsen’s chilling update ditches pyramids for resonances of modern warfare. Catch his ROH production when it screens in Australian cinemas in November.

October 2, 2022
Classical Music
features

Messiaen’s baby Jesus finds a new champion

Bertrand Chamayou talks to Clive Paget about a nine-year-old’s encounter with modern music and how to make bells sound like bells.

September 26, 2022
Opera
Live Review

Review: John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra (San Francisco Opera)

Some have suggested John Adams' new opera is too conventional, but Clive Paget disagrees, finding that age cannot wither the composer as he takes on Shakespeare's Egyptian dish.

September 22, 2022

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