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Albertus Engelbrecht (tenor) joins Yolanda in the OFM Art Beat to provide more details and to share some insight as to being accompanied by renowned pianist Albie van Schalkwyk during this performa...

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One of the most revolutionary decades in the history of recorded music

Welsh operatic tenor who impressed audiences with the sweetness of his voice and his effortless projection

John Andrews has gained a well-earned reputation for brilliant recordings of unknown operas and operettas. As he turns his attention to Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald, Richard Bratby listens in

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?

    After breakfast, we visited the ancient Hippodrome, where chariot races were held in Byzantine days, and where the infamous massacre took

We cannot say precisely when the musical penetration of East and West began, but one thing is certain: composers like Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and others could not resist the fascination of the Orient. Thus elements of Turkish music, Persian poetry and Arabic storytelling found their way straight to the heart of European culture. By Nadja Kayali

Adventurous and inventive Johann Christian Bach, the pioneering ‘English Bach’, proved a major inspiration to the young Mozart, as Chris de Souza explains

Arnold Östman's recordings transformed the way we experience and think about Mozart’s greatest dramatic masterpieces