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An open letter from Harbour City Opera's Artistic Director, soprano Sarah Anne Walker....

Over the weekend, five London-based critics reviewed a new opera production — and each attacked the weight of one of the female soloists. Do they treat male vocalists the same way?...

Prominent singers come out in support of colleague attacked for stature rather than voice....

Soprano Karita Mattila speaks out against conductor Vladimir Gergiev's support of Vladimir Putin....

The ABQ offer a Rolls Royce ride around their eclectic chamber repertoire....

Soprano Sharleen Joynt made a huge splash on The Bachelor . The new edition of The Bachelorette , which starts Monday night, stars an aspiring tenor. But is reality TV too popular for opera?...

Vocal pleasures and some real star turns, but too many mirrors reflect badly on Verdi's drama....

The Australian guitarist takes time out to discuss cross-platform collaboration, new art and her latest CD release....

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Director aside, there's much to enjoy in half of the Con's operatic double bill....

How did one composer document, and survive, the 20th century’s most brutal political experiment?...

A new production of Leos Janácek's opera takes on a longstanding challenge: how to turn human singers into animals without making them look ridiculous. The answer? Animate them....

In Elizabethan England, it was hip to have the blues. Watch the British countertenor mine the art of John Dowland's melancholy songs. He's joined by Thomas Dunford, "the Eric Clapton of the lute."...

Sydney's massed choral forces help McCreesh drive out the Prophets of Baal, and then some....

How much of what we think of as the beautiful sound of a Stradivarius is the instrument itself — and how much is the brand?...

An Australian conductor recalls conducting the future Master of the Queen's Music and more....

This double bill of Menotti and Mozart will take audiences back in time to the1930s and the golden age of live radio plays....

It's been a while since Australian audiences have heard their mellifluous music, but the American Brass Quintet is back....

From legendary European designer Josef Svoboda, comes a vision of Verdi’s opera, dubbed the ‘Traviata of the mirrors’. Through the window of a giant mirror, the audience gazes into the life of the ‘fallen woman’. Australian singing revelation Jessica Pratt brings to life the tragic figure of Violetta, a role often considered the pinnacle of soprano repertoire. ...

Chilled out incarnations of songs from distant shores....