Ahead of his 70th birthday bash, Victorian Opera’s Artistic Director tells Angus McPherson about honing his skills in the percussion section, the best (and worst) conductors, and the pleasures of opera.

The standout CDs of 2019 plus music for your Christmas stockings, Bran Nue Dae at 30, David Williamson's final curtain call, and we interview Richard Mills.

Salome and Die Tote Stadt should satisfy opera lovers and gore aficionados, while Tommy does the rest.

The versatile director discusses his touring production of Hair, opening tonight, The Selfish Giant for VO, and a new song cycle.

Its innovative livestreaming program, which introduces primary school students to opera, returns this month.

The Australian bass-baritone receives a $70,000 scholarship to study at the leading music school in September.

Not only the celebration of a remarkable life, but a celebration of human life with music at its heart.

A musically excellent, perceptively designed and directed production of Wagner’s final opera.

The stars of Victorian Opera’s upcoming production of Parsifal talk the holy fool and the wandering Jew.

He is regularly reviled as something of a monster, but as Michael Scott Rohan finds out, a closer look at Richard Wagner – and in particular his music – reveals a more genial side to the German composer.

With the year drawing to a close, we look back over the operas that wowed our critics in 2018.

This new commission gives an old story an entertaining makeover with style-hopping music, comedy and feminist attitude.