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Cloudstreet Declared ‘A Triumph’
Declared “a resounding triumph”, George Palmer’s new operatic adaptation of Tim Winton’s novel Cloudstreet, produced by the State Opera of South Australia, had the…
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Carmen For 2017 Handa Opera On Sydney Harbour
Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour returns in 2017 with a reprise of Bizet’s Carmen first seen on the harbour in 2013. The production…
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Piano Facts
This short feature from the BBC Music magazine has some interesting facts about the piano as well as a video on how…
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Concert Review: Musician Project/ Brahms 1 And Schubert
The Musician Project Conductor Max McBride Schubert Incidental Music to Rosamunde D 997 and Brahms’ Symphony No 1 in C minor, Opus…
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Seong-Jin Cho’s Chopin Competition Winning Recital Highlights On CD
Deutsche Grammophon has released a recording of highlights from the competition winning recitals of pianist Seong-Jin Cho, the 21-year-old South Korean pianist who recently…
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Classical Music And Streaming
“…Whilst metadata and audio quality have been the burning issues for classical journalists and listeners, it’s the economics of streaming that has…
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Ralph Myers On Corporatising The Arts
Ralph Myers, Artistic Director of the Belvoir Street Theatre delivers the annual Philip Parsons Memorial lecture in which he warns against the increasing…
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Bach Shows Us The Fourth Dimension.
What is the secret of the enduring appeal of the music of JS Bach?! Even of you don’t like his music, the…
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Inside Opera: Livestream on You Tube
Seven of Britain’s opera houses including the Royal Opera House, the Welsh National Opera and the English National Opera, get together for…
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Bored With Boards
Until yesterday, Michael Kaiser was the President of the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts. After 29 years spent running…