Until I know how high-technology works best in opera, discussion of the directing will inevitably swamp the consideration of the music, a pity, since it is music which lies at the heart of opera, writes reviewer HELEN MUSA after seeing "Anna Bolena".
Sixteen-year-old Canberra pianist Bernice Chau has won a place in the degree program at Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, a specialist music academy in the home town of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
It's nearly 50 years since "Woodstock" and, after wearing out her vinyl album in six only months in 1969, our love-not-war, boomer arts editor HELEN MUSA is getting a little nostalgic...
Canberra’s Luminescence Children’s Choir, a lively bunch of youthful treble choristers aged 10-16, will take the stage of the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall between July 15 and 21 in the Gondwana World Choral Festival, reports HELEN MUSA.
Reviewer HELEN MUSA thinks Graeme Murphy's production of “Madama Butterfly” signals a move into an area of art that has more to do with sensation than opera.
Commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, the Royal Australian Mint has released coins depicting the female figure of peace.