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The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz is one of the most successful film musicals of the 20th century, so many audience members queuing up to see this latest ...
Opera initiative opens up primary classrooms
A trip to the opera is a treat that’s not always equally available to young schoolchildren. Until now, that is. What’s more, this new Victorian Opera ...
Opera Australia: Don Quichotte
The original Don Quixote by Cervantes has inspired a number of adaptations that in turn have contributed to variety of written, dramatic and musical interpretations of the ...
Opera Australia: Tosca
Love, sex, jealousy, betrayal, murder, greed, misogyny – all standard fare in opera, and we accept it with equanimity. But menacing evil is something else, and ...
Alexander Briger: Australian World Orchestra
The Australian World Orchestra is soon to make its annual visit to Melbourne and Sydney, with a punishing schedule, if you count international travel as a ...
Opera Australia: La Traviata
From curtain up to Act Three’s closing death scene Opera Australia’s production of La Traviata had what it took to satisfy aficionados of this most loved ...
Concert Reviews
In the popular imagination, the harp is often associated with angels and female musicians, but the harp’s latest international champion, Xavier de Maistre, calls to mind …
In the words of Syzygy’s Leigh Harrold, Claude Debussy’s innovative and expressive compositions have “allowed future generations of composers to be themselves”. For this reason, Syzygy …
Did you know that in Regional Country Victoria classical orchestral music is alive and well, with admirable annual concerts enriching several communities? The task of selecting …
On Saturday night the Australian World Orchestra (AWO) conducted by Maestro Riccardo Muti mesmerised Hamer Hall’s capacity audience with Brahms’ Second Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s monumental Fourth …
On Monday evening in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Chris Howlett’s Australian International Productions presented Japanese pianist Yu Kosuge in recital to an appreciative audience. For this reviewer, …
The Bach family is unquestionably the most gifted musical family in history. Historians have counted at least 50 musicians and several known composers in the family …
