Opera singer in legal battle over Florence Foster Jenkins film
Soprano Julia Kogan is demanding a writer credit for the screenplay for the new biopic of the world’s worst singer.
May 10, 2016
Michael Volle’s voice revealed with tongue-in-cheek Wagner
A real-time MRI scan shows what happens inside an opera singer’s head while he sings.
May 10, 2016
Leo Schofield launches Sydney Sings
Jessye Norman, live shower songs and a 600-voice Carmina Burana to star in new NSW festival. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
May 9, 2016
The Convoluted History of Haydn’s Greatest Creation
The Rite of Spring may have caused a riot, but this oratorio needed the police to keep the audience in order. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
May 9, 2016
Greta Bradman on her watershed year
We talk with the soprano about life, musical loves and the remarkable year she experienced in 2015. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
May 9, 2016
Isao Tomita has died
The Japanese composer, known for his synthesised arrangements of classical works, passes aged 84.
May 8, 2016
Review: The Pearlfishers (Opera Australia)
★★★★☆ Good ideas, good voices and great conducting help a rum old story. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
May 8, 2016
Backstage with Elena Kats-Chernin and Tamara-Anna Cislowska
The two long-term collaborators take us behind the scenes of their new double disc. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
May 6, 2016
Gergiev conducts controversial Syrian concert
The Russian maestro conducted the Mariinsky Orchestra at the Palmyra Ruins, recently recaptured from Islamic State.
May 6, 2016
Mark Dreyfus: Labor will champion the arts if elected
Shadow Arts Minister pledges to undo $105 million of Abbott-Turnbull Government cuts to arts spending.
May 6, 2016
Nicole Car: Australia’s Wandering Star
At only 30, the soprano is fast becoming an in-demand operatic globetrotter. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
May 5, 2016
Review: Through Nature to Eternity (Tinalley String Quartet)
A damn-near-perfect display of incisive and thoughtful music-making.
May 5, 2016
Review: Leningrad Symphony (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
★★★★☆ Caetani’s no-nonsense authenticity rehabilitates Soviet musical propaganda. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
May 5, 2016