Culture December 06, 2025
Pinchgut Opera’s Messiah
Pinchgut Opera’s new realisation of Handel’s Messiah strips it back to its first scoring in 1742 – and it is an undiluted joy.
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Culture January 27, 2024
Composer Ludovico Einaudi
One of the world’s most popular classical musicians and composers, Ludovico Einaudi talks as fluently as he plays, disarming any critique.
Culture September 20, 2025
Pinchgut Opera’s Maid Made Boss
Maid Made Boss, Pinchgut Opera’s take on La serva padrona, shows that the 18th century comic opera might have been made for the contemporary Australian company.
book March 26, 2022
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
In Sounds Wild and Broken, David George Haskell has done for listening what Rebecca Solnit did for walking. He has taken something ubiquitous, ephemeral and largely unconsidered and made it the touchstone for an expansive and revelatory exploration …
