June 12, 2020
In Your Living Room: Opera
Clive Paget recommends a week with the Vienna State Opera, Glyndebourne's Vanessa, and asks who's afraid of Arnold Schoenberg?
June 5, 2020
In Your Living Room: Opera
Clive Paget recommends an Australian Butterfly, a resurrected Austrian miracle and six of the best from Belgium.
May 29, 2020
In Your Living Room: Opera
Clive Paget recommends modern masterpieces from the Met, Rattle’s damnable Faust, and a seven-year-old Yo-Yo.
May 25, 2020
Review: Farinelli (Cecilia Bartoli)
Bartoli beards the most legendary of castrati in his very own baroque den.
May 25, 2020
Review: Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Rome Opera, Daniele Gatti)
Pierre Audi’s minimalist Tristan throws welcome focus on voices.
May 25, 2020
Review: Thomas: Hamlet (Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Les éléments)
Nothing rotten in this modern-dress take on Shakespeare’s Dane.
May 25, 2020
Review: Peter Eötvös: Tri Sestry (Frankfurter Opern, Dennis Russell Davies)
Three sisters, all countertenors, so what’s not to like? Read on...
May 25, 2020
Review: Facce d’Amore (Jakub Józef Orliński)
That’s Amore: Orliński paints a loved-up musical portrait.
May 25, 2020
Your daily opera fix
Opera Queensland's Patrick Nolan discusses An Aria a Day, which has seen singers from around the world giving viewers their daily dose of opera.
May 22, 2020
In Your Living Room: Opera
Clive Paget recommends rarities by Stravinsky and Strauss, plus Barrie Kosky’s take on Mussorgsky.
May 15, 2020
In Your Living Room: Opera
Clive Paget picks 18th and 21st century winners, and then puts three rings on it.
May 14, 2020
Arts Wellbeing Collective visitation soars due to COVID-19
Arts Centre Melbourne CEO Claire Spencer discusses the support the Arts Wellbeing Collective is giving performing arts workers during the coronavirus crisis, and the path to reopening theatres.
May 13, 2020
Did you hear how Heinrich Heine killed Bellini?
In this month's Did You Hear column, we reveal how the superstitious Sicilian proved no match for the Mephistophelean poet.