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  • Not over the rainbow

    Ever since the ironically named State Roads Minister Duncan Gay ordered that the Mardi Gras gay rainbow ... Read more

    Thu April 18th, 2013 - 2 Comments

    The removal of Oxford St's rainbow crossing

  • FALSTAFF

    Giuseppe Verdi was as prodigious as he was prolific, composing operas for more than 50 years. Falstaff ... Read more

    Tue February 26th, 2013

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  • Oxford St derailed

    More than 40 years after Sydney’s tram service stopped operating, the O’Farrell Government has pledged more than $1.5 ... Read more

    Thu January 3rd, 2013 - 3 Comments

    Clover Moore on a Bondi tram from City Hub in 1995

  • MADAMA BUTTERFLY

    Pity poor Butterfly: a 15-year-old geisha who marries an American naval officer on duty in Nagasaki Japan ... Read more

    Fri September 28th, 2012

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  • Media Watch loses the plot

    Loyal viewers of the ABC’s Media Watch could be forgiven for thinking the usually independent-minded guardian of Australian ... Read more

    Thu September 20th, 2012 - 6 Comments

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  • Good News For The Inner City

    This week, in response to reader demand and repeated requests from advertisers, we are increasing the frequency ... Read more

    Thu August 30th, 2012 - 1 Comment

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  • A shaggy dog trial

    A year ago Oscar, a black and tan dog who had been saved from the pound at ... Read more

    Mon August 20th, 2012

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  • AIDA

    Aida is one world’s best known operas. Graeme Murphy’s staging of Verdi’s masterpiece is both sumptuous and ... Read more

    Tue August 7th, 2012

    Opera Australia's 'Aida' SW12 ©Branco Gaica 14.7.2012 (60)

  • THE PEARLFISHERS

    Bizet’s The Pearlfishers centres on the bizarre love triangle of Zurga, a newly crowned king; Nadir, a ... Read more

    Tue July 17th, 2012

    Opera Australia's 'The Pearlfishers'

  • DIE TOTE STADT

    Opera Australia’s production of Die tote Stadt is sumptuous, melodic and melodramatic. Set in Bruges at the ... Read more

    Mon July 9th, 2012

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