The Chief Executive Officer of Arts Centre Melbourne reflects on singing in church as a child, favourite concerts, and music that has kept her sane during lockdown, from Bach’s Goldberg Variations to Hamilton.
October 19, 2020
Arts Centre Melbourne has unveiled a new online exhibition featuring four costumes worn by Dame Joan Sutherland, with information about the role, production and designers, along with 3D scanning.
August 5, 2020
Arts Centre Melbourne's acclaimed mentoring program for emerging composers has announced this year's participants.
June 16, 2020
The funding will support venues including the National Gallery of Victoria, Arts Centre Melbourne and Melbourne Recital Centre.
May 18, 2020
Arts Centre Melbourne CEO Claire Spencer discusses the support the Arts Wellbeing Collective is giving performing arts workers during the coronavirus crisis, and the path to reopening theatres.
May 14, 2020
This week, Jo Litson recommends Inua Ellams’ exuberant play Barber Shop Chronicles, Sam Mendes’ 1993 Donmar Warehouse production of Cabaret starring Alan Cumming, and Tim Crouch’s I, Malvolio.
May 12, 2020
This week Jo Litson recommends John Foreman’s digital variety show Big Night In, and two live streamed concerts, Here’s to the Ladies and Lights Up on the Arts [Home Delivery].
May 5, 2020
Performance spaces are being redeveloped and built all over the country. Steve Dow charts the changes happening to mainstage venues, and explains what this flurry of architecture will mean for classical music and the performing arts.
September 30, 2019
The young cast sure can dance, but lacks the dramatic chops to sell this dark tale.
April 10, 2019
This one-woman show by Paul Grabowsky and Steve Vizard reveals soprano Emma Matthews still at her peak and exploring new possibilities.
September 17, 2018
The much-loved Australian soprano discusses the world premiere of a song cycle written for her by composer Paul Grabowsky and librettist Steve Vizard, which draws on her own experiences as an artist.
September 4, 2018
Opera Australia will donate 30 of Joan Sutherland’s most recognisable costumes to the nation’s largest collection of performing arts memorabilia.
August 17, 2018