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Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Opera, Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Threepenny Opera (Berliner Ensemble & Adelaide Festival)

Barrie Kosky’s brilliant makeover of Brecht, Weill and Hauptmann’s flawed masterpiece leaves you wondering how it could be performed any other way.

March 7, 2024
Chamber, Classical Music, Jazz, Opera, Orchestral
features

Listen to the Australian Art Music playlist: March 2024 – Five Years

Cameron Lam celebrates five years of curating the Australian Art Music playlist featuring music across Classical, Jazz and Sound Art.

March 7, 2024
Festivals, Opera
news

Ballarat Opera Festival 2024 announced

Victorian Opera announces its Ballarat Opera Festival, part of the company’s ongoing commitment to cultural life outside of Melbourne.

March 5, 2024
Opera
news

Domingo and Carreras postpone Australian tour

The reunion concert tour set for dates in March now postponed to November but Adelaide and Perth fans will miss out.

March 4, 2024
Opera
Live Review

Review: The Nightingale and Other Fables (Adelaide Festival & State Opera South Australia)

Presented in Australia for the first time, Robert Lepage’s puppetry-based staging of Stravinsky’s short works is as brilliant as ever.

March 2, 2024
Opera
news

Pinchgut Opera announces Continuo Fellow

Singer and harpsichordist Liam Green to join Pinchgut's specialist program for continuo players.

March 1, 2024
Opera
Live Review

Review: Eucalyptus (West Australian Opera & Perth Festival)

Perth Festival's in-concert staging is a reminder of the pleasures of immersion in the orchestral world of an opera.

February 23, 2024
Opera
Live Review

Review: Idomeneo (Opera Australia)

Exquisite singing and a feeling of déjà vu mark the return of Mozart’s seminal opera after a 30-year absence.

February 21, 2024
Classical Music, Opera, Orchestral
features

Opera, Pure and Simple?

In-concert operas are sometimes regarded as the poor relation of their fully staged cousins. But can less be more?

February 19, 2024
Classical Music, Festivals, Opera, Orchestral, Stage, Theatre
features

The Next Stage

In 2024, some of the country’s leading arts venues will embark on or complete major renovations. What can audiences expect as a result?

February 19, 2024
Classical Music, Opera
features

Guy Noble’s Soapbox: Tantric Music-Making

Pondering the passion in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Guy Noble discovered the composer was something of an Italian stallion.

February 19, 2024
Classical Music, Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata (Munich Radio Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Ivan Repušić)

Early Verdi gets a stylish Bavarian outing.

February 12, 2024
Festivals, Opera
Live Review

Review: Wundig wer Wilura (West Australian Opera)

All the elements of grand opera are here in Wundig wer Wilura: love and war, trust and betrayal, intimacy and the sublime.

February 10, 2024

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