Dodging bullets on the way to school, music as “competitive cage-fighting” almost turned the Chinese cellist off the classics for good. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Meet the composer who put the horrors into the Little Shop and who’s now polishing up Aladdin’s lamp. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Director and commedia dell’arte expert Emil Wolk explains how post-WW2 Italy is uncannily like present day Australia. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Paul Lewis explains why he’s shifted gears from the piano works of a Classic to a Romantic. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Italy's operatic sensation Giuseppe Verdi, at times could be just like the operas he penned: a character of enormous dramatic contrasts.
They may be concert hits now, but in their day Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite changed the face of dance. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Ever since his days as a five-year-old pop musician, the Spanish guitarist has embraced both ancient and modern music. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
These are the four albums the globetrotting Canadian violinist likes to listen to when he’s not cutting his own discs. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Starving for your art is one thing, but what’s a wannabe Diva to do when life begins to dangerously imitate opera?
On the eve of his Australian tour, the Spanish pianist explains why he hasn’t yet decided to be a professional musician. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The Artistic Director of Playwriting Australia explains the whys and wherefores of the National Play Festival. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
What would an electric guitar concerto by Richard Wagner sound like? Guitarist Zane Banks would love to find out. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
For Australian flautist and Asian instrument specialist, Henry Liang, being thrown in the deep end is just part of life.
