Art and Abart

Yesterday I saw the Yoko Ono exhibition War is Over (If you want it) at the MCA in Sydney. I can usually only last half an hour at art exhi...

The singing and orchestration was exceptional … so why was the magic missing? Australian Wagnerian singers were gathered from across the g...

Climate action rally in Melbourne Eighty thousand people demonstrated for climate action in Australia today.  People of all ages from ma...

Melbourne Arts Centre The Melbourne Arts Centre, venue for the Melbourne Ring Cycle, is called the Big Raspberry by locals and you do in...

Stefan Vinke (photo from operaarts.com) Bravo to German tenor Stefan Vinke who sings Siegfried in the Melbourne Ring Cycle. He sang th...

Inside Melbourne's State Theatre Miriam Gordon-Stewart (Sieglinde) and Stuart Skelton (Siegmund) opened last night's dress rehe...

Rheinmaidens in costume (Picture from Opera Australia) When the Ring Cycle was performed in Adelaide the Valkyries were bar-girls and sa...

Kiwiland has been obsessed by the America's cup during my visit. It was won by the American team, but New Zealanders will be able to l...

Huge sails soared to the ceiling of the Sydney Opera House concert hall on Saturday night. A sailing ship ... oh  yes ...  The Flying Dutchm...

So I have taken my latest portrait into the Archibald Prize competition. It is a portrait of the Australian tenor Stuart Skelton. "I...

Richard Wagner was born in May 1813 and in honour of the bicentenary of his birth, many opera houses  including Opera Australia are prepar...