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Pianist Sergio Tiempo was championed from childhood by Martha Argerich; now 41 years old, he’s still every bit the fresh-faced wunderkind.
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The maestro leading one of Australian opera's largest and most expensive undertakings calls it quits, citing issues of "personal chemistry".
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Ahead of her Australian dates, the German violinist talks music, Mendelssohn and staying up late with Ivry Gitlis.
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Opera Australia celebrates the great man’s birthday with a life-sized Valkyrie helmet cake.
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John Adams’ masterpiece is done full justice, proving itself the late 20th century’s great opera of ideas.
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Victorian Opera bring John Adams' 20th century operatic masterpiece to Melbourne in its first home-grown Australian staging.
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The Production Company’s home-grown hit steals the limelight from OA’s South Pacific.
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Best of British compilation includes exciting surprises from lesser-known artists (some of them even Australian).
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Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, April 26.
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The radiant Swedish soprano takes on Strauss and Sibelius at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
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Victorian Opera bring an Australian perspective to bear on Nixon in China, John Adams’ “hit” music drama.
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The Melbourne-based new music ensemble is on a mission to make challenging and abstruse contemporary classical music accessible to all.
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On the eve of his Australian tour, bass-baritone Bryn Terfel chats intimately about Wagner, Verdi, viticulture and the NSW Golf Club.
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He composes, performs and conducts fiendishly difficult music with prodigious ease. What makes the British polymath tick?
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Kneehigh's Brief Encounter and Sylvie Guillem in PUSH will headline at this year's Festival.
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Melbourne does Mahler: an Australian Resurrection.
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On the eve of his latest Australian performances we catch up with the globe-trotting gambist.
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Catching up with the youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn Competition as she heads to Australia.
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German hip-hop dancers break with tradition to prove that Bach is pretty fly for a dead white guy.
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Bad luck comes in threes as Barry Otto becomes the latest star to pull out of an Australian stage production.
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Turning the tale of a WWI veteran into an orchestral score.
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Chinese opera stars head to Melbourne for the New Year - just don’t expect the Blue Danube.
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The Houston opera company says “no thanks” to planned Neil Armfield production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
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Pianists pop out of a Bechstein hidey-hole to play Beethoven's Ode to Joy.
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Beethoven’s Ode to Joy like you’ve never seen or heard it!
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The composer-pianist was in demand in Europe, working with Ennio Morricone.
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Ahead of her Australian tour, the Korean diva answers Facebook and Twitter questions.
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The kooky violinist formerly known as Hahn-Bin on what to expect at the Melbourne Festival.
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Part chamber opera, part performance art: The Minotaur draws inspiration from Monteverdi's famous lost opera.
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Dutch composer Michael van der Aa's existential opera is guaranteed to get audiences thinking.
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Sep 13, 2012
The Steinway artist, a self-confessed "diva", skirted the piano at his Radio National interview.
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The Welsh bass-baritone will sing with the Melbourne Symphony in Davis' inaugural concert.
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Accordionist Richard Galliano says the father of modern tango was “a second father” to him.
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The British pianist's two-year Schubert world tour is giving him new insights into the composer.
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Classical music’s most extreme hipster reinvents himself with a striking new stage name.
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Lyndon Terracini presents a tale of two operatic titans in two cities.
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After a $135.8 million rebuild, Melbourne’s once-dodgy Hamer Hall may just be the country’s finest concert venue.
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Young Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa to take his place at the podium.
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Falla's quirky one-act opera uses shadow puppetry to bring the world of Don Quixote vividly to life.
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The "Pavarotti of the organ" was the "catalyst" for the restoration of Melbourne's fine instrument.
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A triumphant homecoming to Hamer Hall for the MSO, conducted by an old friend.
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At the age of 103, the US composer remains an incisive critic of modern life, nowhere
more so than in car-crash opera What Next?
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Brett Sheehy to end his collaboration with the Melbourne Festival after a four year tenure as Artistic Director
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Opera Australia is about to release tickets to its 2013 Ring Cycle. But who stole the Rhinegold?
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Melbourne Recital Centre, July 10
Lasting impressions of a great recital
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The French pianist has a very French attitude to playing Debussy and Ravel.
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Conducted by Andrew Davis
Monday 25 June 2012, Melbourne Town Hall
Poulenc on steroids in this over-the-top performance.
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Do the musicians think the Melbourne Arts Centre's $128.5 million renovation was worth it?
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Delving into the "maestro myth": why are our best conductors overlooked?
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This beautiful improvisation on Henry Purcell’s music saw Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre transformed into a living room.
