Stanford neuroscientist Thomas Südhof is one of three winners of the 2013 Nobel prize for medicine. Born in Germany, he was interviewed in the medical journal, The Lancet in 2010 when he said that his first choice of dinner companion would be Mozart.
A bassoon player as well, he has applied his learning in music to his career in science.
Craig Hassall – Opera Australia’s new CEO. Hassall has been appointed the new CEO of Opera Australia, replacing Adrian Collette who left the company at the end of last year. Craig Hassall has worked extensively with Opera Australia, Bell Shakespeare, the Olympic Arts Festival for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Cove Australia and the…
Last month, conductor Simone Young gave this interview to Deutsche Welle, Germany’s national broadcaster. In it she talks about her work as general manager and music director at the Hamburg State Opera and chief conductor of the Hamburg State Philharmonic. As well as giving her insights into some basics of conducting, she also talks about her…
Opera Australia’s sumptuous production of Lehar’s glittering operetta The Merry Widow opened in Melbourne this week. Danielle de Niese takes the title role in her much awaited operatic debut in Australia. Sydney-siders will have to cool their heels until the production, directed and choroegraphed by Graeme Murphy, opens at the Sydney Opera House on New…
Nigel Westlake and Katy Abbott are the winners of the 2019 Paul Lowin Prizes. The announcement was made during a ceremony at the Melbourne Recital Centre this week. A video of the ceremony is available for streaming the Australian Music Centre’s website, and includes the 2019 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address by Deborah Cheetham AO. Nigel Westlake…
Simon Boccanegra,Verdi’s masterful tale of intrigue is on at the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House. It was last performed here in 2000. Take a look at the dramatic images from Opera Australia’s revival of this rarely performed masterpiece. Scroll down to see all seven images. Click here to read our review from…
Mahler’s 10th symphony and Debussy’s String Quartet in G are amongst works that have been not just been discovered posthumously, but which have been re-constructed into a work that can be performed. Barry Cooper, a Professor of Music at Manchester has filled in the missing pieces from Beethoven’s 2nd String Quartet….