Saimir Pirgu discusses the challenges and excitement of taking on the Shepherd in Szymanowski’s operatic masterpiece. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Inside the sex and politics of the Weimar-era musical, from Isherwood's Berlin to the latest production at the Hayes.
Richard Katz and British company Complicite take you deep into the jungle for an immersive, mind-bending Encounter.
As a contemporary of Strauss and Schoenberg, it was inevitable that Alexander Zemlinsky’s brilliance would be overshadowed.
Andrew Upton contemplates the magnetic qualities that compel us to revisit the great Russian playwright time and time again.
Find out why the German violinist waited until now to record Mozart’s Concertos. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
For the British director working in Russia, purity and insanity go hand in hand.
The Gandalf of the keys is headed for Oz, and Sydneysiders take note, the sorcerer of Continuous Music is seeking an apprentice. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The much-loved singer-songwriter talks about the ups and downs of writing and rewriting for the stage. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
This particularly rapid unintelligible patter isn’t generally heard and if it is it doesn’t matter, matter, matter, matter...
There’s more to the respected Dutch city than canals, cannabis and scantily clad ladies. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The Finnish composer shocked many in the establishment when he embraced a popular mysticism with his musical angels.
From science to surgery by way of a treatise on cheating, Mary Finsterer’s new opera runs one man’s extraordinary gamut.
