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.
August 6, 2019
The Australian Haydn Ensemble’s Artistic Director and Principal Violin explains how performing chamber arrangements of Beethoven’s symphonies allows us to find the music’s deeper essence.
August 6, 2019
One of our busiest playwrights is directing her new work for Queensland Theatre.
August 5, 2019
This issue includes features on Léo Delibes' Sylvia, Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony, Golden Age string instruments, and composers Schumann and John Kander.
August 1, 2019
Guy Noble explores the dark side of tourism, which he believes commodifies what should be valuable experiences.
July 31, 2019
The winner of 3MBS's The Talent Season 1 2019 on his ABBA obsession, jazz pianist Makoto Ozone, and taking opportunities as they come.
July 30, 2019
The baritone is about to embark on an OQ regional Queensland tour of Songs To Die For in which Don Giovanni meets Highway to Hell. He extols the virtues of opera on the road.
July 29, 2019
Caught between wife and mother, the composer’s danse became macabre indeed.
July 26, 2019
The Canberra rising star conductor will continue his musical journey at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore.
July 25, 2019
In love with opera and each other, Nicole Car and her baritone husband Etienne Dupuis are in Australia for a recital tour, while Car also sings Peter Grimes in Concert with SSO.
July 24, 2019
Two musicians making their Australian debut at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Roberto Carillo-Garcia and Rachael Clegg, take a 1,334-kilometre road trip up the Queensland coast, with instruments in tow.
July 24, 2019
It may be 66 years since a British monarch has been crowned, but that’s not stopping Paul McCreesh. The Gabrieli Consort director discusses the last four coronations and how he’s recreated a fantasy version out of the best bits of each.
July 24, 2019