This is what it’s like to be an introvert in classical music
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON It’s late at night. You’ve just finished a concert after a day full of back-to-back rehearsals. As much as you enjoyed performing […]
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LIVE REVIEW // Jasmine sees Freeze Frame Opera
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON ToscaFreeze Frame OperaCentenary Pavilion, Perth, 9 June As I entered the huge, air-craft hanger space of the Centenary Pavilion, I felt like […]
Adam Tan: From “awful student” to YouTube star and festival founder
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON When Adam Tan first picked up a percussion instrument back in high school, he was “an awful student”. “My practice ethic was […]
Laura Masotto has co-founded a record label and released her first solo album
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON What do you do if there are no opportunities that fit your musical niche? Well, if you’re Laura Masotto, you simply create […]
Samuel Parry: Finding new love for concert band music
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON We last spoke to Samuel Parry about the Western Australian Charity Orchestra in our first print edition. Now, with the second edition […]
WRITER LINE-UP // Jasmine Middleton
Our second print edition is about to make its way across Australia! As we prepare, we bring you our showcase of talented emerging arts journalists […]
LIVE REVIEW // Jasmine checks out the new Persephone Productions
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON Sāvitri Persephone ProductionsFringe World FestivalCheeky Sparrow, 2 February It’s festivals like Fringe World in Perth that help fuel the arts and give smaller production companies the […]
Perth’s newest opera collective set to host a rare one-act Holst
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON Thirty minutes might seem like a short amount of time for a concert. But it was good enough for Gustav Holst, and […]
A one-man show (about white-middle-class-man privilege)
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON Just in time for Halloween, Ben Grant is set to premiere his unique “electrOpera” The Rug tackling an especially frightening subject: […]
Did you know The Handmaid’s Tale is an opera?
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON I’ll let you in on a not-so-little secret: I’m a fan of The Handmaid’s Tale. After devouring the powerful, feminist, and […]