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House takes a bow
Matthew WestwoodThe birth of one of our most famous buildings is being celebrated with its own opera.
Costs in the business of funding
MATTHEW WESTWOODGetting corporate backing for arts bodies is far from straightforward.
The invisible wounds of war
MATTHEW WESTWOODThe Veterans Film Festival opens tonight at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Four more for the council
MATTHEW WESTWOODSam Walsh is one of four people named to the Australia Council board by Arts Minister Mitch Fifield.
Parade adds Basque flavour
MATTHEW WESTWOODMelbourne Festival’s new artistic director makes his mark.
New rules rock music industry
MATTHEW WESTWOODThe music industry has warned that new visa charges are likely to lead to higher ticket prices for local audiences.
Catholic girls and unholy trinity
MATTHEW WESTWOODIt sounds like every parent’s nightmare: a group of Catholic schoolgirls let loose in the big city.
Inspiration in creation stories
MATTHEW WESTWOODThe shape-shifting stage may be appropriate for the play about creation stories, from classical gods to Adam and Eve
Brilliance, but is it classical?
MATTHEW WESTWOODAn album by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and electronica duo Flight Facilities won an ARIA for best classical release.
Spectacle is back on track
MATTHEW WESTWOODNow heading the Melbourne Festival, Jonathan Holloway has boldly reinstated outdoor street theatre.
exclusiveBenefactor’s ‘very dear’ gift
MATTHEW WESTWOODPeter Weiss’s loan of an 18th century $1.8m cello to the Australian Symphony Orchestra is now a gift.
Taking care of business
MATTHEW WESTWOODComposer Elena Kats-Chernin was asked to set a serious story about the economy to music. What happened next?
Donors see the pointe of ballet
ASHLEIGH WILSON, MATTHEW WESTWOODQueensland is enjoying the nation’s biggest surge in private-sector arts support thanks to the state ballet company.
Inside art’s digital bunker
Matthew WestwoodWith Google bringing great cultural artefacts to a device near you, what now for galleries and museums?
EXCLUSIVEBrush with 3-D realities
MATTHEW WESTWOODAs oil paints and photography were once new technology in art, artists may yet come to grips with painting in VR.
Ghosts of the Garden Palace
MATTHEW WESTWOODJonathan Jones seeks to reclaim a lost part of indigenous history.
Beginner’s luck for Aussie in NY
MATTHEW WESTWOODCall it beginner’s luck: an Aussie boy in New York lands the lead role in a Broadway musical.
’Luciano had a tear on his cheek’
Matthew WestwoodMexican conductor Alondra de la Parra, 35, on her new job at the QSO, and the power of music over children.
ABBA, ABBA do, on stage
MATTHEW WESTWOODPJ Hogan’s cringe-inducing satire of suburban Australia, Muriel’s Wedding, is coming to the stage.
Pioneer with legacy writ large
MATTHEW WESTWOODOZ magazine pioneer Richard Neville has died in Byron Bay, aged 74.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
MATTHEW WESTWOODBaz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin have entrusted the musical version of their film to young director Alex Timbers.
No space for indigenous work
MATTHEW WESTWOODA survey of arts presenters found just 2 per cent of almost 6000 performances last year were by indigenous artists.
From townships to world stage
MATTHEW WESTWOODSouth African soprano Pumeza Matshikiza had her first experience of opera when she happened to change the radio dial.
$3m compo pitch falls on deaf ears
MATTHEW WESTWOODOpera Australia has slammed the Baird government for failing to compensate the company for loss of revenue.
A new host with the MOST
MATTHEW WESTWOODThe ABC Young Performers Awards will return next year under the auspices of the Music and Opera Singers Trust.
Tapestry succession plan looming
MATTHEW WESTWOODThe Australian Tapestry Workshop is seeking new talent for the loom.
Sound progress for Opera House
MATTHEW WESTWOODPlans have not yet been finalised, but refurbishment of the Concert Hall is set to begin in 2019.
Wagnerian wonderland
Matthew WestwoodBayreuth is the German home of the world’s most famous and exclusive opera festival.
Opera’s heavy-hitter is back
MATTHEW WESTWOODExpat opera and theatre director Barrie Kosky will return to the Australian stage with three works in three years.
Fill-in director might stick around
MATTHEW WESTWOODSydney Theatre Company may have its next artistic director waiting in the wings.
Artists ‘punished’ for boycott
MATTHEW WESTWOODThe Australia Council’s independence is in ruins, says journalist Ben Eltham in a new Currency House Platform Paper.
Sport’s painful side a winner
MATTHEW WESTWOODMelbourne artist Richard Lewer has won the $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize for his painting The Theatre of Sports.
Small but perfectly performed
MATTHEW WESTWOODVictoria doesn’t do too badly when it comes to small and interesting festivals dedicated to contemporary classical music.
Opinion
We’ll all win if PM cows unions
Janet Albrechtsen The power grab for volunteer firefighters goes to the heart of the federal election.
Disruption looms in anti-elitism
Paul Kelly Feeling ripped off by corruption and afraid of terrorism and migrants, voters are going to extremes.
Politics is turning into tennis
Greg Craven There are only two dogs in this fight — our first unashamedly imperial poll.
Don’t be fooled, focus on future
Catherine Livingstone We need policies that prevent a downward spiral as the world’s economy evolves.
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