Review: Puccini: Tosca (Staatskapelle Dresden/Christian Thielemann)
Harteros heads a Tosca that perhaps should have offended more.
Harteros heads a Tosca that perhaps should have offended more.
Russian soprano displays her Mozart credentials and more.
Heinichen’s forgotten Roman blockbuster is a heady brew.
Angel takes wing as Donizetti’s lost opera is revisited at last.
The respected Australian arts journalist and opera critic David Gyger has died at the age of 87. His son, composer Elliott Gyger, has shared this obituary with us.
Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek discusses her upcoming debut with Opera Australia in Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, playing a spoilt noblewoman, and how she keeps in character in the wings.
A finely sung, charming recital of French song from two of opera's most exciting stars.
The time seems to have come for this 1983 pastoral Gothic chamber opera by Ross Edwards and Dorothy Hewitt.
The 2020 season also includes Handel's Rinaldo plus concerts of Charpentier, Purcell, Monteverdi and Gabrieli.
This issue includes features on Léo Delibes' Sylvia, Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony, Golden Age string instruments, and composers Schumann and John Kander.
Barrie Kosky's daring, dazzling production is controversial yet poignant, with the music having the final say.
A wild, confronting and bittersweet ride in three acts you won’t easily forget.
Though dramaturgically flawed, this adaptation of Peter Carey's beloved novel is full of daring and brilliance.