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While the concert is named after Richard Strauss’ iconic tone poem, Strauss shared the program with two female musicians currently making their mark: Australian-American composer Melody Eӧtvӧs, and Spanish violinist, Maria Dueñas.

Eӧtvӧs is currently a Senior Lecturer of Music at the University of Melbourne’s Conservatorium of Music, and has already composed more th...


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Flora is a garden of earthly delights grounded in exquisite dancing and storytelling. The work hums with life, ever evolving but not afraid to acknowledge the past. A collaboration between The Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre, Flora digs deep, takes root while endeavoring to enrich and educate its audience.

Bangarra Dance Theatre Artist...


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The Melbourne Hebrew Congregation at Toorak Synagogue hosted another Live at Yours Concert, this time featuring violinist Sergej Krylov and pianist Konstantin Shamray in an (almost) all-French program. Krylov was playing the wondrous “Camposelice” Stradivarius of 1710. Such is Krylov’s mastery of the violin he could surely make any instrument sound wondrous. Antonio Stradivar...


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The launch of the James Webb telescope into outer space in 2021 has brought us previously unimagined vision and revolutionized the theories and history of our universe, as it details images and spectra from objects as close as Mars to as distant as 13.5 billion light-years. In the words of Melbourne composer Stuart Greenbaum, “A light-year is not a span of time, it’s a distan...


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This weekend, International Women’s Day is an opportunity to reflect on women’s achievements, and opera lovers would be hard pressed to find a woman who has made a greater contribution to the Melbourne opera scene than Linda Thompson AM. For decades she has supported performers and creatives via Gertrude Opera and, more recently, Australian Contemporary Opera Company (ACOCO)....


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