Features
These are the artists who made the biggest impression on you over the last year.
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The accessible performance options on offer, from tactile tours to relaxed performances.
by Patricia Maunder
Reg Livermore’s musical is given a major revival, almost 50 years after its premiere.
by Jo Litson
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Soundings
Interview
by Deborah Jones
On the Record
This month features Elsa Dreisig, a soprano of prodigious talents. Then there’s Allan Clayton singing Winterreise, but not as we know it, and orchestral music, some familiar, most not so.
by Clive Paget
Cutting Edge
Isobel Waller-Bridge talks about her new album, Objects, which shines a magical lens on mundane objects and sounds.
by Maddy Briggs
theatre
Dennis McIntosh was a child when the West Gate Bridge collapsed, but he has never forgotten it. He and actor Daniela Farinacci talk to Ceridwen Spark about his new play West Gate.
by Ceridwen Spark
opera
After the success of last year’s inaugural Handa Opera at Millthorpe festival, Lyndon Terracini tells us about this year’s expanded program.
by Jo Litson
books
★★★★ An illuminating memoir by BBC director Brian Large who captured musicians on film.
by Will Yeoman
film
★★★★ Director Óliver Laxe doesn’t prepare us for the disaster that unfolds – which makes this film so memorable.
by Jason Blake
In the Limelight
Coda
Guy Noble's Soapbox
Guy Noble explains why positive affirmations drive him mad and have the reverse effect.
Playing Up
Technical mastery is the key to musical expression, says Opera Australia Concertmaster Matthieu Arama.
World Premiere
Sunny Kim and Hilary Kleinig explain how their new chamber work for Canberra Symphony Orchestra was born out of improvisation.
5 Questions For
The Music Director of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra discusses China’s relationship with Western music ahead of an Australian tour.
My Music
The Adelaide Festival Centre CEO has loved music and the arts since childhood, having learned at the knee of her father, arts leader Tony Gould.
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