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  VICTORIA -- For the first time in almost 40 years, the Victoria Conservatory of Music has moved a popular event online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conservatorys Mothers Day Garden Tour will go live online on April 25 and will be available online until May 16. The tour will include musical performances by conservatory students and will showcase local gardens, including a "magical" Japanese dry landscape garden, a restored 1926 cottage overlooking a perennial garden and two giant 90-...

The Australian planning operas in the land of Game of Thrones We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement When the chance to move to Northern Ireland to run an opera company came on his radar, Australian director Cameron Menzies thought of one thing straight away: it’s where they made Game of Thrones. “Northern Ireland has such amazing venues and sites,” he says. “It’s the playground of G...

Mountain Scene January 29, 2021 By TRACEY ROXBURGH Closed borders are providing an extra boost for next month’s Twilight Opera, the stage for which is a recently-designated ‘garden of national interest’ at Dalefield. Produced by the Arrowtown Creative Arts Society (ACAS), with Auckland’s Opera Studio, it’ll be the second event of its kind held at Bruce and Margot Robinson’s ‘Birchwood Garden’, at Birchwood Road. Five of the seven names now signed on for the Febru...

How Russian theater guru Konstantin Stanislavsky changed the acting universe B.Brilliantov/Sputnik; Getty Images Konstantin Stanislavsky’s ideas changed the face of theater as much as Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity changed the understanding of physics. Stanislavsky wrote his name in the history books as the most influential theater practitioner of the modern era and a central mover and shaker in the world of acting and dramatic training. Theater was a source of palp...

Houston Grand Opera’s Giving Voice concert last January was a triumphant celebration of Black voices in opera. Now Houstonians can give a standing ovation—albeit from their living rooms—for its sequel, which is available to stream through February 21. This year’s concert features several of the most renowned African American opera singers in the country, including tenor Larry Brownlee and soprano Nicole Heaston as co-hosts and performers. Joining them are baritone Donnie...