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?
Jessica Pratt takes on the fearsome "Hoffmann Challenge". Working Dog's Tom Gleisner makes a musical. All this and more in a fit-to-bust edition of Limelight.
Features include Cate Blanchett on TÁR, Cilea's opera Adriana Lecouvreur, the arts on offer in 2023, philanthropy in Australian arts and the relationship between Noongar artists and Perth Festival.
Thirty years after its release on Sega Genesis, the punishing, unsettling, and surreal 16-bit classic is still swimming through the brains of the people who made and played it