Articles

WTF?! Why do we call everything “classical”?

September 27, 2018

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Welcome to our series, What the Fact?! Throughout 2018, we’re teaming up with talent at the Australian National Academy of Music to bring […]

Zoltan Fecso creates mesmerising new music through “pointillism”

September 26, 2018

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Have you heard of pointillism? It’s the awe-inspiring technique with which painters create large works based on thousands, perhaps millions, of tiny dots […]

Kathryn Marquet on writing an opera the kids will love

September 24, 2018

BY ALISON PARIS Based on the much-loved children’s poem by Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat invites youngsters into the world of opera […]

Homage to Tasmanian conductor Marko Letonja

September 21, 2018

BY JO ST LEON For the past seven years, Marko Letonja has taken the roles of chief conductor and artistic director with the Tasmanian […]

A win 8 years in the making: Zoe Drummond takes home The Mathy

September 21, 2018

BY SYLVIE WOODS, LEAD WRITER (NSW) The winner of the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition this year is 25-year-old Zoe Drummond. The Victorian soprano’s […]

Mad Music is a mental “health forum that people actually want to go to”

September 21, 2018

BY JESSIE WANG When we hear the term ‘classical music’, most of us have an image of a concert hall filled with a quiet […]

Timothy Young talks Debussy (and being an annoying kid)

September 20, 2018

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When you were a kid, did you ever nag your parents because you really, really, REALLY just had to have this […]

Behind the Curtain | Teddy Tahu Rhodes

September 18, 2018

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE So you’ve been to see the opera. Maybe you were a concertgoer, taken aback by the majestic staging and tales of […]

Stuart Skelton on gang mentality and Peter Grimes

September 18, 2018

BY BRIDGET O’BRIEN UPDATE 15 JULY 2019: Stuart will revisit this role with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra this July 25 and 27. The dramatic colossus […]