Review: Music of the Spheres (Perth Festival)
Cosmology and composition collide in Music of the Spheres, an unusual musical journey through time and space, including extracts from Richard Mills' new opera Galileo.
Cosmology and composition collide in Music of the Spheres, an unusual musical journey through time and space, including extracts from Richard Mills' new opera Galileo.
Two world premieres, Mozart, and Shostakovich's hilarious operetta feature in Richard Mills' swansong season.
A Christmas Carol has become a yuletide tradition. We explore its magic with the creative artists behind the various adaptations that are about to grace our stages.
With its Noongar theme of Djinda (stars), this year's program will look to the cosmos. Artists include the Kronos Quartet with Maatakitj, Björk and a sneak-peek at Richard Mills' new opera about Galileo.
Richard Mills’ take on a timeless Chinese love story finally gets its world premiere.
The composer, conductor and Artistic Director of Victorian Opera discusses his new opera The Butterfly Lovers, based on a famous Chinese legend about doomed lovers who finally find freedom when their spirits are transformed into butterflies.
Catherine Foster makes a stunning Australian debut in a concert of Strauss’ Greek tragedy.
In this month's features we explore three new productions of Swan Lake, pay tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams on his 150th, investigate a new opera about Olive Pink and publish an extract from Andrew Mellor's new book The Northern Silence about Nordic music and culture.
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Concert will be held at St John’s Cathedral in Brisbane to raise money for the Australian Red Cross and help flood victims.
Stuart Maunder will take over the role from outgoing Artistic Director Richard Mills in October 2023.
This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
Cameron Lam started out looking at the sky and pondering the stars, but his thoughts quickly turned to contemplations of death, mourning, bird song, and distant landscapes.
Finally, this long overdue – and much delayed – revival of Richard Meale's grand opera confirms that it is indeed a masterpiece.