Women have had a considerable impact on the shape of opera music from the baroque era to the modern day. We're celebrating the contributions of these women as part of our Festival of Female Composers.

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. OPERATIC heroines often get a raw deal. They get stabbed, betrayed and buried alive. They swallow ...

For Sydney Eisteddfod hopeful Kirsten Jones, life in opera began when the principal at the small Illawarra primary school she attended heard something in her voice during choir and suggested voice ...

Afghanistan’s only all-female orchestra, whose members largely come from Kabul’s streets and orphanages, will perform in Melbourne and Sydney this month. Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) ...

Holland-Batt grew up around classical music. Her engineer father, Tony, was an enthusiastic amateur pianist and composer. Car trips were accompanied by recordings of Beethoven, Grieg and Rachmaninov.

Cardiff-born opera and musical theatre director Jo Davies has been appointed artistic director of Opera Australia — the first woman to hold the role in the company's 66-year history. The 52-year-old ...

The applause rang out, as a torrent of figures swept forward–a long, colourful line of women (or were they men?) on stage at the Vienna State Opera. Here were figures covered in bold pouf dresses, ...

Afton Battle is one of the very few Black female general directors of an opera company in North America. She was hired in late 2020 to transform the company — in the middle of a pandemic. When Afton ...