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2017 Helpmann Awards announcedBarrie Kosky's Saul and Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife win...
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It's 20 questions time for Karen GomyoThe Tokyo-born, Montreal/New York-raised violinist shares her favourite recordings and...
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Emma Matthews to head Classical Voice at WAAPAThe acclaimed Australian soprano hopes to continue performing but will...
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Review: Thaïs (Opera Australia)★★★★½ Nicole Car and Etienne Dupuis prove a match made...
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Julian Day wins 2017 APRA Professional Development AwardThe composer, artist, writer and broadcaster has won the Classical...
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Violinist misses flight after Qantas refuses boardingViolinist and Sydney Con professor Ole Bøhn was forced to...
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Ernst Ottensamer has diedThe principal clarinettist of the Vienna Philharmonic, and father to...
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John Curro: An accidental conductorThe Queensland Youth Orchestras’ founder has been mentor, guru and...
News
Mitch Cairns has taken out the Archibald Prize for his portrait of artist Agatha Gothe-Snape.
Passengers on an overnight train witnessed the world premiere of an opera inspired by items of luggage.
A woman in Japan has been arrested on suspicion of smashing her former partner’s valuable violin collection.
David Robertson extends his SSO contract by one year
2 days ago
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Jo Litson
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Classical Music
The SSO Chief Conductor and Artistic Director is to stay through 2019, and has revealed a little of his 2018 programme.
Melbourne Festival 2017 programme announced
2 days ago
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Jo Litson
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Classical Music
Jonathan Holloway looks to "the bigger picture" with Taylor Mac, Under Siege and a Requiem for Cambodia on the bill.
New Akram Khan work to headline OzAsia 2017
2 days ago
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Clive Paget
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Classical Music
A slice of life over 100 years in a Singapore hotel, a virtual opera star and a mysterious bathhouse are among the offerings.
Editor’s Choice
It's 20 questions time for Karen Gomyo
2 days ago
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Karen Gomyo
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Classical Music
The Tokyo-born, Montreal/New York-raised violinist shares her favourite recordings and the music she could live without.
Jonathan Henderson will premiere the Australian composer's new work with the Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra.
Did you hear about the grisly case of Paganini's corpse?
July 21, 2017
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Angus McPherson
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Classical Music
The famous virtuoso violinist suffered ill-health all his life, but his troubles didn’t end with his death.
Rising Star: Bass Adrian Tamburini
July 20, 2017
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Adrian Tamburini
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Classical Music
The Aussie bass triumphed at the 2017 Opera Awards, giving him the opportunity to hone his craft abroad.
Wendy Sharpe brings some rage to Unashamedly Original
July 19, 2017
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Angus McPherson
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Classical Music
The award-winning artist will recreate Hogarth’s The Enraged Musician to the sounds of the Australian Art Quartet.
John Curro: An accidental conductor
July 19, 2017
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Suzannah Conway
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Classical Music
The Queensland Youth Orchestras’ founder has been mentor, guru and musical legend for a generation of Australian musicians.
Live Reviews
★★★½☆ A glittering, intoxicating love song to the disco era.
Review: Schubert’s Trout (Omega Ensemble)
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Clive Paget
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Classical Music
★★★½☆ Tasty Trout gets a flavoursome grilling, if not quite a flambé.
★★★½☆ Sinkovsky's the star in an evening of baroque pearls.
★★★★½ AWO’s crack squad delivers top-notch Beethoven and Dvořák.
★★★★☆ A hugely enjoyable staple of Adelaide's cultural diet.
Review: St Nicolas (Sydney Chamber Choir)
4 days ago
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Clive Paget
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Classical Music
★★★★☆ Brett Weymark and SCC would have made Richard Gill proud, not to mention Britten.
CD/DVD Reviews
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★★★★★ Missing in action no more: Albion Records restores a fistful of revelatory scores by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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★★★★☆ Kats-Chernin and Cislowska re-team in dreamy homage to Satie.
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★★★★☆ Polish over profundity in Melvyn Tan’s ‘Czerny’ of a lifetime.
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Blogs
Bach to the Bush Diaries Part 2
by Anthony Albrecht on July 28, 2017
Anthony Albrecht reports from the bush on his regional recital tour.
Bach to the Bush Diaries: Part 1
by Anthony Albrecht on June 30, 2017
Anthony Albrecht reports from the bush on his regional recital tour
Playing the Goddess in Tannhäuser
by Sarah Sweeting on August 11, 2016
Sarah Sweeting on how she came to discover a more sensual, seductive expression of Venus.