Máximo Diego Pujol’s tango trio to make its Australian debut at 2014 Adelaide International Guitar Festival. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Australian Chamber Orchestra and Dawn Upshaw head the impressive list of this years winners.

Geoffrey Rush, Jacki Weaver, Brenton Broadstock and Patrick Thomas head 2014’s honours for the arts. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Sydney Symphony Orchestra accompany Godfrey Reggio's reflective follow-up to his Qatsi Trilogy.

Here’s a curiosity. It seems that the Paris Opera didn’t entirely turn down the young Richard Wagner’s Flying Dutchman in 1840. Instead they bought the subject from the ever strapped-for-cash composer for 500 francs and gave it to a chum of the director, a former double bass player- cum-composer, Pierre-Louis Dietsch. For the Wagner birthday celebrations, Marc Minkowski came up with the ingeneous idea to perform both the rare original ‘Paris’ version of Wagner’s opera as well as Dietch’s jauntier bel canto confection, Le Vaisseau Fantôme (the Ghost Ship). The Wagner receives a fine performance with excellent soloists. Russian baritone Evgeny Nikitin makes a spirited Holländer with plenty of textual nuance and lashings of angst, if lighter in tonal weight than is sometimes the case. He is well matched by his Senta, Ingela Brimberg, occasionally under pressure but often exciting and always committed. The period instruments feel a little thin at times (Wagner was perhaps already demanding more of the orchestras of the day) and Minkowski doesn’t always allow enough breathing space for the drama to land, but when it does, it’s an exciting enough affair. For the explorer, though, it’s the curiosity of the Dietsch that will draw them…

Rossini's six characters in search of an author find one, plus a first-rate director and production to boot.

Classical monthly seeks potential critics in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Hobart.

Andrew Bovell and Andrew Upton's production of Beckett's classic head the winners at Sydney's annual theatre awards.

Eminent conductor and one of the leading lights of his generation passes at 80. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The German violinist talks candidly about Mozart, life after Karajan and when to call it a day.

Mezzo-soprano, cancer survivor and general role model celebrates in style with gala tribute in New York.

Benjamin’s Pied Piper fable and Kurtag’s nihilistic fragments dazzle eye, ear and brain.