Stage and arts headlines

Opera industry tries to strike balance between attracting new audience and not alienating existing supporters
Sydney Morning Herald

Classics help fill darkness for Queensland Ballet's 2012 season
Courier-Mail

Opera 'club' faces Wagnerian blast
The Age

Chris Mangin's curtain call at the opera
The Australian

When encore leaves 'em crying 'No more'
The Australian

Helpmanns: Mary Poppins floats off with eight awards
The Age

Opera lovers to pay more for popular shows
The Australian

Turf wars with operatic overtones
The Australian

Men meek as mice for Beresford
Sydney Morning Herald

Lord of the opera broke with protocol
The Australian

Change at the top of Queensland Ballet: Francois Klaus resigns
Sydney Morning Herald

The Noongar ascendancy
The Australian

Master's insight into the disease of self-obsession
Sydney Morning Herald

Lady with an Ermine dodges rampaging Russian, Prussian and German armies to finally be displayed in London
The Australian

Winning pas de deux for nation's top ballet accolade
Sydney Morning Herald

Finding strength to survive the horrors of war
The Age

Much ado about John Bell milestone
The Australian

Enter theatre women: stages left, right and centre
The Australian

Graeme Murphy creates new 'Romeo and Juliet' for Australian Ballet
The Age

A 'grand new era' for Opera Australia with 2011 season
Sydney Morning Herald

Alex Ross - "Hold your applause: inventing and reinventing the classical concert"
Royal Philharmonic Society Lecture, 2010 [PDF]

Why theatres spurn Australian plays
Sydney Morning Herald

It's soul music as Mary's life hits the stage
The Australian

'Rudd was in the air': comedian Anthony Ackroyd's curious emotional entanglement with the former PM
Sydney Morning Herald

Private Dances: a different kind of intimacy
The Age

Shock of the new hurts bottom line: Opera Australia's $1 million loss
Sydney Morning Herald

Play wins Pulitzer with shock treatment
The Australian

Bayreuth supremo Wolfgang Wagner dies
Sydney Morning Herald

Paris blockbuster heads for No 1
The Australian

Jersey Boys dominates Green Room awards
Sydney Morning Herald

As a rule, white girls can't dance in Bollywood
The Australian

Anna Nicole Smith saga to be turned into an opera
Sydney Morning Herald

Carl Vine's take on Der Rosenkavalier makes it easy to let go of the Strauss
The Australian

$8 million donated to Australian Ballet
ABC News

Victoria loses sculpture prize
The Age

National Art School in new year turmoil
The Australian

Tosca star's exit remains a mystery
Sydney Morning Herald

Hearing a play is seeing it
The Australian

Cate Blanchett bleeds for her art
The Australian

Mozart's killer revealed — it was not Salieri!
Sydney Morning Herald

A classics scholar revives the tale of the forgotten feminist martyr Hypatia
The Age

Night watch: the International Year of Astronomy and some deep, dark mysteries
The Age

In for long haul as festival starts
The Australian

Cancer claims soprano with the confident and creamy voice
Sydney Morning Herald

The adage that the show must go on was stretched to heroic lengths by a leading actor in a West End play
The Australian

Legacy of a little girl lost: the stories of indigenous Australians still struggle to be heard.
The Age

Shakespeare's pairs offer complex lessons for lovers
The Australian

Australian dancer wins top choreography prize
The Australian

Modern maestro: anarchic spirit that forged a new musical landscape in the 1960s changed the way the world listened
The Age

Opera's siren song
The Age

Perth theatre rivals discuss merger
The Australian

Greer mad at 'insane' writer's play
The Australian

Australian arts "asphyxiated" - Lisa Gasteen
The Advertiser (Adelaide)

Fallen hero: satirical show inspired by Wayne Carey
The Age

You only get one shot at Hamlet
Sydney Morning Herald

Youth with stars in their eyes: the NIDA reunion
The Australian

Opera sings for its surplus
Sydney Morning Herald

Inside the collective: Louis Nowra
The Australian

Nutcracker squeezes ballet
The Australian

Australian Dance Awards 2008 nominees
Sydney Morning Herald

Alice at the opera
The Australian