COVER STORY
ACO hits the high notes

What compels people to climb the world’s great peaks? And what might music have to say about it? Building on the success of The Reef, Richard Tognetti and film director Jennifer Peedom, of Sherpa fame, discuss the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s exciting new cinematic and musical odyssey: Mountain.

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Lost & Found
From Stravinsky to Haydn, works once thought gone forever continue to turn up. Welcome to a world of surprises and serendipity among the rediscovered scores of the great composers.

Perchance to dream
The likes of Berlioz and Verdi shied away from Shakespeare’s most complex character, but not Brett Dean. The Australian composer explains why he’s tackled Hamlet for the operatic stage.

Big Brother is coming
The year 1984 may have been and gone with few ill effects, but George Orwell’s dystopian nightmare has seldom seemed so up to date. And now it’s coming to a theatre near you…

Love’s labours won
Messiaen’s monumental Turangalîla-Symphonie was pivotal in the composer’s career. His biographer Peter Hill reveals the personal pain behind the musical masterpiece.

The Weimar effect
As the Weimar Republic collapsed in chaos, the Nazis slipped into power. Baritone...