Opera Australia has opened its 2010 season with a new production of Puccini's Tosca . There was some fine singing from a wholly commit...

Today is the official opening of Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building. There seems no doubt that it is the tallest; and its actual h...

I have written here previously about the statue of Robert Burns by Frederick Pomeroy in the Sydney Domain. Now, thanks to the wonders of t...

Bluebeard’s Castle is a one-act opera by Bela Bartok to a libretto by Béla Balázs . It is a version of an old story which has appeared in...

I became interested in Nicolas Hawksmoor and his London churches in April this year when I saw the Lion and Unicorn gamboling around the to...

Opera Australia has opened a new production of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte directed by Jim Sharman. "It's not in an airport loung...

I visited the church or St Bartholomew the Great on bank holiday in May for no particular reason. The church has a long history going bac...