The Met's General Manager on season details, the slow return of audiences, new music that does "the shocking thing of pleasing audiences" and the Netrebko dilemma.
November 9, 2022
Sydney Chamber Choir’s Artistic Director is a devotee of German classical music. He digs deep into the work of Bach and his compatriots as he prepares for the Choir’s exploration of the German baroque.
November 8, 2022
Leah Curtis introduces her work Infinite Possibilities, which maps and illuminates new sound worlds, ahead of its world premiere by Canberra Symphony Orchestra.
November 7, 2022
As he prepares for Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming People’s Choice and Fidelio concerts, Concertmaster Andrew Haveron talks to us about exploring new territory in the world of opera.
November 4, 2022
The Director of Chamber Music Adelaide tells us why the concerts in this weekend festival are free and why accessible chamber music is so important to her.
November 4, 2022
In his latest choral work, Christopher Bowen has drawn on Keating's famous Redfern Speech. He tells us why, and about the feedback he got from Daniel Barenboim.
November 2, 2022
Ginar is a Torres Strait Islander word for dance, and the name of a new dance company paying homage to the land and sea, from the northern tip of Australia to the border of Papua New Guinea.
November 1, 2022
As Anthony Warlow prepares to helm the Titanic at Melbourne's Town Hall, he discusses Maury Yeston's score, as well as his love of Gilbert & Sullivan and early 20th-century operetta.
October 28, 2022
"I would love to do a concert where I just sing female songs", says Ben Mingay, as he discusses Sondheim and finding the vulnerability in a character, ahead of starring in a musical theatre concert in Adelaide.
October 27, 2022
"Employ more women," says Opera Australia CEO Fiona Allan, one of six women, including Simone Young and Deborah Cheetham, interviewed in a new documentary by Miriam Gordon-Stewart.
October 26, 2022
Benjamin Millepied, former Principal with New York City Ballet, Director of Dance at the Paris Opera Ballet and choreographer of Black Swan, discusses his latest film and the influence of Jerome Robbins.
October 25, 2022
The founder of London’s Chineke! Orchestra explains her passion for a Black British musical icon, whose music, she believes, should be much better known.
October 25, 2022