Chamber music specialist Alina Ibragimova plays Richard Tognetti’s string orchestra arrangement for “Death and the Maiden.” For the second program of their national season, the Australian Chamber Orchestra put on a sparkling show with guest conductor Alina Ibragimova. Russian-born, London-based Ibragimova is a violinist who has made…
At a seminar at the Forum Theatre, Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, aka The Minimalists, spoke to over 700 hundred Melburnians about the essence of minimalism and how it can add value to your life. If you’re new to this term,…
Pastoral music and period instruments by the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra at the Melbourne Recital Centre, with guest choir Polyphonic Voices. A popular style of the Romantic period is the pastoral, which calls to mind horizon views and bountiful…
‘Moonshine’ was originally a slang term for high-proof distilled spirits usually produced illicitly, but Melbourne Moonshine have brought credibility to the drink at their boutique operation in Port Melbourne. Together with Shannon Martinez from Smith + Daughters and Mike Patrick…
If you haven’t familiarised yourself with what ‘live art’ is, now is the time. The Festival of Live Art (FOLA) is yet again showcasing a body of bold, ambitious and provocative work and Let’s Go Up Here is the embodiment of…
The Rebetiko Festival celebrates Greek Blues(rebetiko) music, urban, improvised music created in the hash dens of Piraeus at the end of the 19th century by Greek refugees from Asia Minor (Turkey). More than just folk or traditional music, it is…
Comedy in the Lido Cinema Jazz Room on a Tuesday night is such a great idea. The room has so much heart with host and regular performer, Ferdi Billimoria, handing out flyers in front of the doors in the minutes…
The Festival of Live Art (FOLA) has been rocking and rolling Melbourne’s experimental arts scene for the third year with its provocative, whimsical and unpredictable program. Encapsulating all those three elements, Worktable is a quintessentially FOLA show that takes you out…
Sir Andrew Davis conducts a canonical Ninth with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Symphony No.9 in D by Gustav Mahler is considered one of the greatest works for orchestra, an esteem that it retains a century after it was written. For…
Welcome to Runway 7, presented by Grazia — the final runway for 2018’s Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival. This one is dedicated to the ‘It-Girl’, so naturally, our audience tonight is dressed femininely and impeccably. Super pop with a perfect-for-ladies’-night-out vibe…