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Opera Australia in turmoil after shock departure of artistic director
Jo Davies had barely 18 months in the key role at the nation’s biggest performing arts company.
- by Nick Galvin
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This terrifying tale is so intense you can feel it in your bones
Hayes Theatre is presenting a classic spine-chiller as its first opera.
- by Nick Galvin
Their speed at building railways made them legends. What was their secret?
Brisbane Festival show Straight from the Strait ensures Torres Strait Islander workers of the WA mining boom are no longer unsung heroes.
- by Nick Dent
Five days to get gala ready? ‘Yes it was stressful, but I’m a tenor’
Singer Young Woo Kim was two days into a holiday when a phone call saw him racing to Melbourne for a flurry of rehearsals and excitement.
- by Elizabeth Flux
The ‘post-Millennial Mozart’ on contemporary opera’s most talked-about production
Missy Mazzoli was wary about turning a harrowing film by Lars von Trier into an opera – but it presented an opportunity that could not be missed.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
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Think of the drinkers: the advice that helped turn Hamlet into an opera
Composer Brett Dean needed some sage advice to adapt Shakespeare’s longest play.
- by Joyce Morgan