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As Roger Scruton observed in half a dozen books and many essays, the fight to preserve classic music has not gone particularly well over the past century. Truth, beauty and a sense of the divine have been all but erased from our shared musical palette -- victims of modernity’s anti-aesthetic march and the ever-present neo-Marxist will to destroy

This Die Walküre will yank you into its strange, glittering, unearthly world and never let you go, writes arts critic Adrian Chamberlain

Edmonton Opera, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Jubilee Auditorium, Joel Ivany, Miriam Khalil, Rose Naggar-Tremblay, Adam Luther, 60th anniversary

Barrie Kosky and conductor Antonio Papanno have cooked up a complete storm with this new production of Wagner's Das Rheingold

Pacific Opera Victoria presents a mythological treat

At the 2023 Salzburg Festival, a director used all of his resources, including the Vienna Philharmonic, to put on one of the worst operas I've ever seen.

In November, the Sydney Symphony’s Chief Conductor Simone Young will commence a four-year project to present Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle at the Sydney Opera House. Here she explains why these performances will be an unmissable musical experience.

Leading West End producer who took over the Theatre Royal in Norwich in 1992 and completely transformed its fortunes

Looking forward to an ambitious 2024 season, Umberto Clerici, the Chief Conductor of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra recaps on his 2023 program and some of the challenges it has presented.

We explore the mystique of Wagner’s magnum opus, the Ring Cycle, with Chen Shi-Zheng, Sir David Pountney, Neil Armfield abdLise Lindstrom.