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.
Miriam Cosic previews the Sydney Symphony’s staged production of Tchaikovsky’s mammoth opera: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/gamblers-tale-makes-for-another-sure-bet/story-e6frg8n6-1226526044660
Music Performance UNSW is delighted to announce Nicholas Vines as the winner of the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize for 2025, for their work, A Bhandari Pilgrimage.
Fresh from her Wagnerian debut as Elsa in Lohengrin at the Dresden Semperoper, Anna Netrebko will release a new recording in September 2016, Verismo, with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano. This recording on Deutsche Grammophon with its striking cover, explores some of the darker reaches of the dramatic soprano repertoire with…
Hiring major venues in Sydney is a costly exercise. Albeit the performers get a world class stage and the support services to boot. However, the budget involved is more often than not, beyond the means of smaller and emerging artistes; and the larger auditoriums are not always acoustically suited to the performers. Meeting these needs are a…
A $400 million upgrade is planned for the Sydney Opera House, reports Matthew Westwood in The Australian. Does this plan place too much competition on the venue to live up to expectations as a tourist facility as well as a centre for the arts and its ensembles in residence?
Tenor Stuart Skelton is soon to be performing again in Sydney. This is an interview he have to SoundsLikeSydney last year, on singing Wagner and on some of the characers he has portrayed in opera. If you’re one who believes that in the end, the tenor gets the girl, even a cursory look at the roles sung…