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Will Sydney see a floating Sphinx in 2015?
Verdi’s Egyptian opera Aida has been announced as the next instalment in the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour program.
Glass half-full for State Opera SA
Adelaide opera-goers are booking for the full Philip Glass Trilogy, rather than for individual operas as expected.
Flexibility, foresight and forbearance: mounting a national tour
From regional venues to major performing arts centres, adapting a work for touring requires patience, imagination and homework.
Dancing Blokes set for Darwin premiere
Dancers Matt Cornell and Joshua Thomson are preparing to reveal their movement-based investigation into the typical Aussie male.
Microphones become instruments in Transducer
New media artist Robin Fox and Speak Percussion’s Eugene Ughetti have collaborated for this rare, immersive performance.
Circus in the spotlight at Melbourne Festival
Josephine Ridge’s second Melbourne Festival program reflects the culture and values of the city in which it's held.
Staying alive: preventing suicide in the performing arts
Performance artists are more than twice as likely to commit suicide as the average person. Now the Australian charity Entertainment…
Youth circus sector launches national manifesto
The manifesto’s key principles and strategies have grown out of a two-year, sector-wide discussion.
Violin virtuoso appointed as WAAPA’s Head of Strings
A Canadian educator and recording artist has been appointed as Associate Professor, Classical Performance.
$200 million fund ‘a landmark for arts philanthropy’
The Packer Family Foundation and Crown Resorts Foundation have jointly announced a new National Philanthropic Fund.