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Details: 06 December 2010

A Midsummer Night's Dream | Opera Australia

Filmmaker and opera director Baz Luhrmann has always shown a penchant for the spectacular. He has a taste for Bollywood and Italian grand opera, and does not shy away from romantic idealism, visual pageantry and musical ecstasy.

Details: 03 December 2010

Haydn’s opera on perhaps the most popular subject for Western opera composers, the myth of Orfeo and Euridice, had its Australian premiere last night at the hands of the wonderful Pinchgut Opera

Details: 03 December 2010

Storm the Stage - National Grand Final 2010

It was a fast paced showcase of the diverse talent among some of Australia’s finest young performers.

Details: 02 December 2010

Michael Hill’s Boxing Day Test is an often dark and tense look at a particularly hurt family, with damage traipsing back fourteen years finally coming out.

Details: 02 December 2010

Both were born in England in the ’40s, developing lithe, tall and somewhat awkward frames. Both sport noses that hang decidedly downwards, and both were given the Christian name John. But is that where the similarities end?