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Classical Music, Opera
features

Kasper Holten on finally directing the first opera he ever saw

The Danish director talks to Limelight about staging Carmen on the lake-stage at Bregenz ahead of its cinema transmission. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

October 20, 2017
Classical Music, Dance, Vocal & Choral
features

Joby Talbot talks Miracles and Wonderland

The British composer has a choral work at Melbourne Festival, while the Australian Ballet is dancing to his music in Alice.

October 20, 2017
Classical Music
features

Bernadette Harvey: what is the future of classical piano music?

The pianist will explore this question and more through the premieres of four new works in a setting of Lisztian opulence. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

October 19, 2017
Classical Music
features

Did you hear about the cellist with a taste for spiders?

Prolific composer and Baroque star Anton Fils had a surprising appetite for arachnids.

October 18, 2017
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental, Vocal & Choral
features

Anne LeBaron heads to the Totally Huge New Music Festival

The cutting-edge US artist will discuss composing in a post-truth world and perform her work inspired by a military “blood chit”. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

October 16, 2017
Classical Music, Instrumental, Orchestral
features

Lu Siqing on contemporary classical music in China

Ahead of his appearance with the Chinese National Symphony Orchestra, the violinist talks music, audiences, and beauty.

October 16, 2017
Classical Music, Opera
features

Diego Torre: people used to tell me Bohème is not your opera

Ahead of Madama Butterfly, the Mexican-born tenor shares why he’s happy to be working here with Opera Australia. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

October 15, 2017
Classical Music, Visual Art
features

The Flowers of War: Monet’s waterlilies and weeping willows

Christopher Latham looks at the French impressionist's paintings and experiences during the First World War.

October 13, 2017
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Sir Edward Elgar

Moody, paranoid and in later years creatively paralysed by depression, there was a dark side to Elgar that history tends to overlook.

October 12, 2017
Classical Music, Dance, Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
features

Jonathan Holloway: a festival can give a degree of hope

The Melbourne Festival’s AD explains that audiences in the city, and in Australia, inspire him to go further and harder. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

October 12, 2017
Dance
features

7 Pleasures: dancing around the pleasure principle

The Melbourne Festival offers up a joyous, provocative embrace of body politics, nudity and sexuality in society today. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

October 10, 2017
Classical Music, Opera
features

Meet the ancestors: two singers who changed opera forever

For their new albums, soprano Joyce El-Khoury and tenor Michael Spyres are walking in famous footsteps. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

October 10, 2017
Classical Music
features

Greta Bradman on the importance of well-being

The soprano explains how the rise of the Protean career means arts organisations need to adapt to changing needs. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

October 9, 2017

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