Creative Academic: Composer Cat Hope
BY SAM GILLIES Cat Hope is a composer, curator and performer, heavily involved with Australian new music. She is the founder of the Decibel […]
May 2014
Hänsel and Gretel: Sarah McKellar Talks Fairy-Tale Opera
BY GABRIELLE RUTTICO If you believe that fairy-tales are for little kids and Disney fans, OperaBox and Love Opera’s Hänsel and Gretel is about […]
Tweet Seats: The American Brass Quintet
BY LUCY RASH AND MEGAN BURSLEM Just as we heard someone next to us whisper, “Melbourne Recital Centre was built for concerts like this”, the […]
Discover: Vaughan Williams with Howard Shelley
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) is one of England’s most highly celebrated composers, known for his stunningly tranquil choral music and gorgeous […]
Australia First: Czech Scenographer Josef Svoboda
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Hailed one of the most influential scenographers of the 20th Century, Czech set designer Josef Svoboda’s work is seen in Australia […]
2014 Federal Budget: Official Playlist
BY SAM GILLIES AND ANDREW MESSENGER The anger and gnashing of teeth that has followed our new Prime Minister’s inevitably brutal budget has left […]
Live Review: La Traviata
BY LUCY RASH AND MEGAN BURSLEM Victorian Opera La Traviata by Verdi Her Majesty’s Theatre, May 17 2014 A great deal of hype has ensued […]
Return to the Renaissance: Trevelyan-Jones & the Giovanni Consort
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The young singers of Perth’s Giovanni Consort will return to the Renaissance this May in their first concert of the year, […]
Opinion: On Being Told to Give Up
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When I was in high school, I was encouraged to apply for a scholarship which would provide me with a year’s […]
Live Review: Avi Avital
BY BEN NIELSEN Australian Brandenburg Orchestra featuring Avi Avital Works by Vivaldi, Bach, Pachelbel, Albinoni, with arrangements of Falla and Bartok by Avital. City […]