The future of arts leadership in Australia
What does it take to lead a successful performing arts organisation – and is Australia grooming the next generation of leaders?
Matthew Westwood reports in today’s The Australian.
What does it take to lead a successful performing arts organisation – and is Australia grooming the next generation of leaders?
Matthew Westwood reports in today’s The Australian.
The Managing Director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Matthew VanBeslen, discusses new ways of sustaining “classical” music. (See post on “Where To Next For Symphonic Music?”) http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/orchestras-strike-chord-with-their-communities/story-e6frg8n6-1226071948052
Move over the von Trapp family! The prodigiously gifted Kanneh-Mason family will this week release a new album Carnival, on Decca Classics. Carnival is a very special collaboration between Academy Award-winning actor Olivia Colman, former Children’s Laureate and author of War Horse, Sir Michael Morpurgo and the seven talented Kanneh-Mason siblings – Isata, Braimah, Sheku,…
Some of the weekend’s stories and reviews of the Vienna Philharmonic Sydney concerts: Teddy Tahu Rhodes and David Hobson: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/perfect-match/story-e6frg8n6-1226157899124 A look a Mozart’s The Magic Flute: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/enigma-variations/story-e6frg8n6-1226157882835 The Vienna Philharmonic in Sydney: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/out-of-the-void-comes-music-of-the-universe-20111007-1ldhj.html http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/homage-to-schubert-played-to-perfection-20111006-1lbk8.html
Opera Australia’s new production of Bizet’s Orientalist opera The Pearlfishers opened in the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House last week. It is an exotic looking production! Scroll down to see all ten images. Runs till March 12. 2016. Image credits Keith Saunders, courtesy Opera Australia
Dame Kiri te Kanawa who was watched by an estimated 600 million people when she sang Let the Bright Seraphim at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, has announced her retirement from singing. Dame Kiri shot to fame as the Countess in the 1971 Covent Garden production of the Marriage of Figaro….
Songwriters and composers at pivotal career stages are invited to apply for the 2026 APRA AMCOS Professional Development Awards (PDAs).