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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.
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.
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 new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute uses animation to bring the fantastical opera to life.
Should unfinished art remain so?
Schiff persuaded his near-capacity audience to remain completely silent until the very end of each half of the program – a major coup.
Opera Australia’s new production of Aida features movable LED panels with digital scenery. It’s part of a revolution transforming the art form.
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.
A new recording of South African composer Arnold van Wyk’s complete solo piano music explores new perspectives.
Divine inspiration was at the centre of music for thousands of years – until post-war conservatoires got other ideas.
Listening to your favourite album might not be the best idea if you’ve got something to do.
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.
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.
The Scottish capital is reopening a well kept secret: one of the world’s finest collections of vintage sound machines.
The conditions for originality in a piece of writing.
Non-addictive and cost-effective, music can reduce the time it takes you to fall asleep and lessen sleep disturbances.
New Mozart production set in 1930s Eritrea made headlines when ticket holders in Edinburgh were offered refunds – before the event.
Classical or hip-hop, music often feels like it has healing properties and now scientists have proved it.
Since July, Mozart’s popular opera, The Magic Flute, has been touring regional Australia. The Opera Australia production, a version of Mozart’s classic reinvented by Australian playwright Michael Gow and…
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
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Professor and Head of Music Therapy, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Arts and Teacher Education, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of Academic Program, Music, Western Sydney University
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Hon Research Fellow in Poetry and Theatre studies, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor and Head of Composition, The University of Melbourne
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Reader in health technology assessment, Brunel University London
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Senior research associate, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
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Lecturer in Music, Edinburgh Napier University
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Reader in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Education, UCL
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Cellist and musicologist, University of Sydney
