The newest opera to be staged by Victorian Opera this month is "The Visitors", by ANU composer Chris Sainsbury. HELEN MUSA tells the story behind it.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Reviewers attending "West Side Story" were issued with a set of "guidelines", which looked like an effort to pre-empt and restrict negative comment, an attempt at media manipulation, writes a furious "CityNews" arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Long-lost brothers, mistaken identity, madness, betrayal, substituting one woman for another – no, it's not Shakespeare, it's the latest production by the ANU’s Za Kabuki Club.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA lists another full week of Canberra arts events in her latest "Artsweek" column.
Canberra theatre artist Marcel Cole has carried off awards at the “Paint the Town Pink” Sydney Fringe Festival’s prize-giving ceremony on Sunday.
Director Lexi Sekuless is happy to go along with the Bard’s version of events as she embarks on a series of productions looking at the Henry VI plays, staging them rock 'n' roll/heavy-metal style, reports HELEN MUSA.
There will be more than the usual amount of gender-bending in Bell Shakespeare's production of "Twelfth Night”, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA steps into the arts mix with another of her "Arts in the City" columns.
"Celebration rather than grandiosity was uppermost in the minds of director Matthew Stuckings and his merry band of choristers," writes reviewer HELEN MUSA of the 60th anniversary concert of the ANU Choral Society, SCUNA.
In what its director Mathew Trinca called “a powerful act of friendship and respect,” the National Museum of Australia has signed an MOU with the National Museum of Singapore.
Canberra is full of passionate art collectors and one such, Kushma Ram, is holding an exhibition of fine, handcrafted saris, reports HELEN MUSA.
In a surprising list, the Australian War Memorial in Canberra has been named number nine in the top 10 free tourist spots in the world, the only such place in Australia.
