‘Carmen’ – the costumes
A sneak look at the some of the fabulous costumes by Julie Lynch –


A sneak look at the some of the fabulous costumes by Julie Lynch –


Legendary pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet announces Carte Blanche, a new album on Decca Classics. Carte Blanche will be released on 10 September, following his 60th birthday on 7 September. To mark a milestone birthday and celebrate a new chapter in his relationship with the Decca label, Thibaudet was given “carte blanche” by Decca to choose personal…
Opera Australia today launches its 2015 Sydney season with a core of classics performed by a stable of overseas and home-grown masters of their roles and creatives. The programme, it says is “uniquely audience-focused”, “highly accessible” and has the aim of further increasing audience numbers. Speaking to SoundsLikeSydney, Opera Australia’s Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini affirms…
If you can’t watch it, record it, or watch on SBS Catch Up! Benjamin Britten’s eerie masterpiece The Turn of the Screw is being broadcast on SBS TV on Saturday November 23rd at 1 pm. Directed by Jonathan Kent, this is the 2011 Glyndebourne production, released on DVD in 2012. Conductor Jakub Hruša, the London Philharmonic…
Sydney-based klezmer fusion band Chutney is set to launch its debut album Ajar in August 2024.
It makes sense to be good friends with people you have to work with. Especially if they are people whose characters you have to inhabit. American tenor Arnold Rawls is in Sydney to sing the role of Manrico for Opera Australia in Il Trovatore. Sitting in the Green Room of the Sydney Opera House, Rawls confesses “Manrico is probably…
A super feature on Shostakovich by David Fanning in Gramophone Magazine.