Eurozone Crisis impacts on culture budgets
The crisis in the Eurozone has its impact on funding for cultural activities. Matthew Westwood writes in The Australian
The crisis in the Eurozone has its impact on funding for cultural activities. Matthew Westwood writes in The Australian
Commemorating the birth centenary of the great Leonard Bernstein this week, Deutsche Grammophon has released a recording of his Symphony No 2, The Age of Anxiety. Unusually for a symphony, it is scored for solo piano and orchestra. In this recording Krystian Zimerman is the pianist with Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. It is a…
On September 25, 2015, the National Opera Review Panel comprising Dr Helen Nugent AO (Chairman), Mr Moffatt Oxenbould AM, Mr Andrew McKinnon and Ms Kathryn Fagg released its report into the “financial viability, artistic vibrancy and audience access of Australia’s four major opera companies.” These four companies are Opera Australia, Opera Queensland, State Opera of South Australia and West Australian…
It seems that this opera has a phantom that simply can’t be shaken. The Melbourne production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle scheduled for late 2013 is seeking a conductor at short notice after the designated conductor Richard Mills resigned. Productions of Wagner’s Ring are said to be jinxed – a phenomenon discussed in Stephen Fry’s excellent 2010 BBC…
Ten years after Sir Simon Rattle began his tenure with the Berlin Philharmonic, he speaks to Ivan Hewitt of The Telegraph about the last decade …and that unforgettable moment when he shared the stage with the infamous Mr Bean. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/proms/9492893/Simon-Rattle-interview-of-course-the-orchestra-is-stroppy.html
Opera Australia has announced the appointment to its Board of Simon Mordant AM, effective from 1st January 2014. He joins a recently re-structured Board chaired by David Mortimer AO who assumed his role in January this year and Mary Waldron who joined ahead of the Company’s AGM in April, 2013. In a press statement released today, David…
Opera returns to the Joan Sutherland Theatre after the COVID-19 shut down in March 2020, with Opera Australia unveiling a four- production, three-month, COVID-safe season for 2021 that includes two debut productions for the company. This quartet of productions is intended to be the first of several for the year. Due to open on 5…