In Your Living Room: Theatre and Musical Theatre
In her first column, Jo Litson's highlights include NT at Home's Frankenstein, Red Line's Gruesome Playground Injuries, and Les Misérables – The Staged Concert.
In her first column, Jo Litson's highlights include NT at Home's Frankenstein, Red Line's Gruesome Playground Injuries, and Les Misérables – The Staged Concert.
Barrister by day, virtuoso by night, Australian-born Paul Wee has taken time out from the bar to record two of the most daunting works in the Romantic repertoire. Clive Paget talks to him about his singular career path and his fascination with the eccentric and reclusive Charles-Valentin Alkan.
In the first of our brand new In Your Living Room series, Angus McPherson looks at some of the exciting classical music concerts coming up online.
Chris Lian-Lloyd explores what classical music live streaming can learn from sports coverage.
We speak to Australian musicians working around the world about how they are responding to the challenges of teaching music remotely.
The UK-based Australian soprano thought she'd recovered from COVID-19 then had to be rushed to hospital as she struggled to breathe. She shares her petrifying experience with honesty and humour.
The veteran Queensland Symphony Orchestra musician recalls the memorable moments of nearly five decades in Brisbane.
Appointed Principal Conductor of the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini at 27, the Birmingham-born conductor discusses leaving the cello behind, his mentor Andris Nelsons, and the lessons of Shostakovich.
Mathew Frank and Dean Bryant have written a new musical based on Miles Franklin's novel My Brilliant Career. Now they have released an original cast recording.
The trumpet – glorious and war-like – isn’t an instrument you can be shy about, says Swedish trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger. But it’s the combination of power and vulnerability that makes it special.
Across nine days in January, Angus McPherson visited the 2020 Youth Music Culture Guangdong event in Guangzhou, China, spent time with Yo-Yo Ma, and discovered how the legendary cellist’s philosophy extends far beyond music.
From eccentrics to recluses, these musicians positively thrived on social distancing. (Image courtesy of @mozart____ on Twitter)
The conductor talks to Clive Paget about his recording of Mahler's “Symphony of a Thousand” with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Limelight's Recording of the Month in April.