Constantine Costi doesn’t have small dreams. He wants to slap down the hideous encroachment of technology on our lives, while at the same time championing humanity and art. How? By directing Opera Australia’s new production of Puccini’s beloved La Boheme as if it’s been devised by the very Parisian bohemians…
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The first time Dave Holland played with Miles Davis, he had no rehearsal, no set-list, no sheet music and no prior discussion. The young British bassist, replacing Ron Carter in Miles’ famed 1960s quintet, watched the trumpeter approach the microphone, and start playing a song at breakneck speed that Holland…
Belinda Bromilow sprang into the world’s imagination wrangling butterflies. Such was the impact of the Sydney actor’s performance as the eccentric Aunt Elizabeth (whose hobby was training butterflies) in Stan’s series The Great that she’s been mobbed by fans from an airport in Zimbabwe to a restaurant in Portugal. Created…