This review of shows around Melbourne includes How Do I Let You Die?, Whose Gonna Love ’Em? I am that i AM, Chase, and a five-star performance of Mahler 9.
If Australian opera is to have a worthwhile future, craft, style and quality are essential. That artistic merit should be trumped by quotas and chromosomes is laid out in a recent paper, Risky Business: Policy Legacy and Gender Inequality in Australian Opera Production. Have the authors never heard of Simone Young, our greatest living conductor?
This month's features explore OA's new 'Digital' Ring, the stage adaptation of The Dictionary of Lost Worlds, Mahler's Ninth, and Sir Eugene Goossen's push for the SOH.
As violinist Natalie Chee returns to perform with the AWO, the orchestra returns to Mahler after ten years. She discusses what's changed in the years between.