The SSO and employees sign up to new workplace arrangements
In response to COVID-19, the musicians, administrative staff and leadership team have agreed on reduced hours and salaries until the end of 2021.
Jo Litson is the Editor of Limelight Magazine. She took up the position in late 2018 having joined the magazine as Deputy Editor in 2016. During a 35-year career as an arts journalist she has been a contributor to numerous publications including Limelight, The Australian, The Bulletin, and the Qantas magazine. She was the arts writer and theatre reviewer for The Sunday Telegraph for 12 years until 2018, and has written the labels for the Archibald Prize for the Art Gallery of New South Wales for over 20 years.
In response to COVID-19, the musicians, administrative staff and leadership team have agreed on reduced hours and salaries until the end of 2021.
This week Jo Litson recommends John Foreman’s digital variety show Big Night In, and two live streamed concerts, Here’s to the Ladies and Lights Up on the Arts [Home Delivery].
OA | TV will feature operas starring Dame Joan Sutherland, the Handa Operas on Sydney Harbour, and an interview series called In Conversation with Lyndon Terracini.
The Brisbane quintet is developing a seven-part multi-media project about the climate crisis affecting regional Queensland towns, with the first part premiering online now.
In her first column, Jo Litson's highlights include NT at Home's Frankenstein, Red Line's Gruesome Playground Injuries, and Les Misérables – The Staged Concert.
State Opera South Australia will Keep the Home Fires Burning with a free concert of nostalgic wartime songs, streaming on ANZAC Day morning.
Three Australian composers will be awarded $1500 each for a work, which the choir will premiere on its 2021 tour to Northern Europe and the Baltic – COVID-19 permitting.
The project will curate a selection of artwork by primary school children in an online AGNSW exhibition, and on ABC platforms.
We will use the support to run a new series of weekly columns highlighting some of the gems among the plethora of arts material now available online.
The UK-based Australian soprano thought she'd recovered from COVID-19 then had to be rushed to hospital as she struggled to breathe. She shares her petrifying experience with honesty and humour.
Mathew Frank and Dean Bryant have written a new musical based on Miles Franklin's novel My Brilliant Career. Now they have released an original cast recording.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has stood down its musicians and 12 administrative staff due to COVID-19, and is applying for the JobKeeper wage subsidy to pay them.
The Australian star soprano has established a fund to help struggling freelance Australian classical singers, here or abroad, who have lost work due to COVID-19.