Keith Saunders/Opera Australia
A new production by Kate Gaul does not shy away from pantomime silliness.
Creativity involves generating something new – a product or solution that didn’t previously exist.
Maestria_diz/iStock via Getty Images
Researchers had college students and AI take a standardized test in creative thinking, and all of them were scored by trained evaluators who didn’t know in advance that some had been completed by AI.
These multicolored notes reflect the diversity of music across the world.
MirageC/Getty Images
The predominantly white European field of music education in the US is changing radically these days as schools confront anti-Black histories.
Comparing Beethoven to punk rockers is based on the composer’s attitude to tradition, but is it an accurate categorization?
(Shutterstock)
In popular media, Beethoven is imagined as a punk rocker. But what do these claims reflect about our relationship to classical music?
Two female models face off in a production of The Magic Flute at Texas A&M University. Above, the Queen of the Night is up to no good, while the passive Pamina awaits her rescuer.
Wikimedia
Princess movies and opera alike reveal the limited number of models available to women. “Le Dernier Sorcier”, composed by Pauline Viardot in 1869, shows that a much richer world is possible.
Juan de Dios Mateos as Cavalier Belfiore and Ruth Iniesta as Corinna in Opera Australia’s 2019 production of Il Viaggio a Reims at Arts Centre Melbourne.
Jeff Busby
Gioachino Rossini’s opera was originally meant as a satire of royalist France. A new production updates the work for a modern audience, setting the drama in a museum where the paintings come to life.
Preliminary drawing of title page for ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), 26:7, The Maurice Sendak Collection.
Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Library. © The Maurice Sendak Foundation.
The book took eight years from conception to publication. In the earliest dummy, the monsters that millions have grown to love actually started out as horses.
A unique production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute is playing at this year’s Perth Festival.
Toni Wilkinson
A new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute uses animation to bring the fantastical opera to life.
First page of Liszt's opera Sardanapalo, GSA 60 / N4. Photo © Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Should unfinished art remain so?
András Schiff performing: his utmost focus is on effectuating his singularly unique sense of musical style.
Yutaka Suzuki
Schiff persuaded his near-capacity audience to remain completely silent until the very end of each half of the program – a major coup.
Dancers in Opera Australia’s 2018 production of Aida at the Sydney Opera House.
Prudence Upton
Opera Australia’s new production of Aida features movable LED panels with digital scenery. It’s part of a revolution transforming the art form.
Mosaics by artist Chuck Close on the walls of the new 86th Street subway station on the Second Avenue line in New York.
AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File
In his short play from 1830, ‘Mozart and Salieri,’
Russian poet Alexander Pushkin proposed that genius and evil are incompatible. Here’s why this argument is worth revisiting in light of #MeToo.
South African born pianist Daniel-Ben Pienaar.
Stephanus Muller
A new recording of South African composer Arnold van Wyk’s complete solo piano music explores new perspectives.
Road to nowhere?
Sergio Delle Vedove
Divine inspiration was at the centre of music for thousands of years – until post-war conservatoires got other ideas.
Music and work don’t always mix.
wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock
Listening to your favourite album might not be the best idea if you’ve got something to do.
Babies start their musical development in the womb.
Shutterstock
There a number of ways you can use music to shape your child’s brain for success, from 16 weeks gestation right up until they start school.
Singing helps us remember information.
Flickr/Martin Abegglen
Because of the way our brains work, we can remember songs and rhymes much more easily than just words or letters. The ABC song teaches kids the basics of the English language.
St Cecilia’s Hall.
Wikimedia
The Scottish capital is reopening a well kept secret: one of the world’s finest collections of vintage sound machines.
Peshkova / Shutterstock.com
The conditions for originality in a piece of writing.
Spectral-Design/shutterstock
Non-addictive and cost-effective, music can reduce the time it takes you to fall asleep and lessen sleep disturbances.