Opera Australia has revived Baz Luhrmann's 1993 production of Britten's AMidsummer Night's Dream . Tempus fugit. It's hard...

from The London Illustrated News, 21 October 1893 This all began in Townsville in August. I was there for the Australian Festival of Cham...

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...