★★★★☆ Weymark’s aquatic programme comes with sought after harbour views. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
An exclusive behind the scenes look at Australia’s first ever TV ‘Soap’ Opera, The Divorce. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
It’s the time of year when many of us in the media enjoy letting our heads swivel back and forth, Janus-like, over the old year and the new.
Sex and lies in Ancient Rome will be on the menu for Festival’s second outing. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
We talk to the award-winning singer about what’s hot in musical theatre today, and ask if race is still an issue. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and countertenor Andreas Scholl feature in latest Bond installment. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Devils and tritones and nuns! Oh my!
Editor’s Choice, Vocal & Choral – November 2015 “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded survived” – the old schoolroom rhyme is still a good way of recalling the fate of the six colourful women who married Henry VIII. Anne Boleyn, the second wife and the first to get the chop (literally) had quite an interesting life before she came to Henry’s attention. As a maid of honour to Margaret of Austria, a great musical patron, then in the French court of Henry’s sister, Mary and later in that of her stepdaughter, Queen Claude, Anne would have been exposed to a wide variety of musical styles, as well as being given ample opportunity to develop her own musical talents. All the more intriguing then, is a music book kept in London’s Royal College of Music that bears her name. It contains 42 works, both sacred and secular, by a variety of composers. Some are smaller works destined for domestic or devotional settings, while others are grander, liturgical works. David Skinner and his vocal consort (named after the Tudor singer, composer, music copyist… Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Vote for your favourite three in our inaugural Australian and International Artists of the Year Awards. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Here are our shortlists of the 25 albums of 2015 rated most highly by our critics. But which will come out on top?
★★★★½ Robertson’s ‘from the heart’ Mass returns to the heart indeed. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Rush, Russell Beale, Salminen & Skovhus: four Lears on tackling Shakespeare’s tortured monarch. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The SSO’s chief explains why he’s taken his time before conducting the music Beethoven never heard. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
