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Amid dwindling audiences and rising production costs, Australian opera is facing its first national review. So what are the solutions put forward so far?
Opera Australia has once again posted a major operating loss and is weathering criticism for its very safe repertoire. Both these points merit consideration in the federal government’s National Opera Review.
Opera Australia (OA) has dealt with what was becoming a significant boycott threat by sacking the Georgian soprano Tamar Iveri. The company had planned to bring her to Australia to perform the role of…
The fictional character of Carmen – the heroine of Bizet’s opera – attracts a range of labels which variously position her as seductress, femme fatale, sex addict, fate/ death obsessed, victim, liberated…
Opera Australia is currently performing Richard Wagner’s most famous work, Der Ring des Nibelungen – The Ring Cycle – marking the bicentenary of the composer’s birth, at a reported cost of A$20 million…
Even if you’ve not had the chance to see it, you’ll know Melbourne is currently going to town over Wagner and The Ring Cycle. There’s a clear historic precedent for this – but we have to go back a whole…
It should come as no surprise in the nation that gave the world the Big Pineapple, the Big Guitar, the Big Sheep, and, for that matter, a Big Ad, that the size of a cultural artefact in and of itself is…
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Vocal Studies and Opera, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Musicology, University of Sydney
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Honorary Research Associate, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries and ARC DECRA Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Cognitive Science, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Publishing and Audience Studies, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Research Associate - Creative Industries, Flinders University
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Lecturer in Spanish Studies, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Musical Theatre, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of Academic Program, Music, Western Sydney University
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
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Head of Musicology, The University of Melbourne