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Nov 17, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Peter Rose |Arts Highlights
What a happy time this is for Wagnerians, with a memorable Ring cycle last year from Melbourne Opera in Bendigo, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg to look forward to in February 2025 from that enterprising company.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Peter Rose |Arts Highlights
Opera Mozart's moving and ambiguous late opera State Opera of South Australia ABR Arts • 06 September 2024 Opera Mozart's moving and ambiguous late opera State Opera of South Australia ABR Arts • 06 September 2024 Così Fan Tutte – the third and last of Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte’s collaborations – followed Le nozze di Figaro (Vienna, 1786) and Don Giovanni (Prague, 1787). This was a time of increased penury and loss for Wolfgang and Constanze (two children died during the writing of writing...
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Peter Rose |Arts Highlights
Opera Australia’s appearances in Melbourne have an almost wistful quality these days, given the present closure of the State Theatre.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Peter Rose |Arts Highlights
The contrast could hardly be more stark. Late last year, Red Stitch’s production of Edward Albee’s play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Sarah Goodes, began life at the company’s eighty-seat theatre nestled in East St Kilda. It sold out, became the talk of the town, and attracted positive reviews. Usually, that’s how things end.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Sarah Holland-Batt |Paul Kane |Peter Rose
Click here to enter the 2025 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
First prize: AU$6,000
Four other shortlisted poets: AU$1,000
Closes: midnight AEST, 7 October 2024
Judges: Sarah Holland-Batt, Paul Kane, Peter Rose
Australian Book Review welcomes entries for the twenty-first Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open to all international poets from 1 July 2024 until midnight AEST, 7 October 2024. This year the Porter Prize is worth a total of AU$10,000 – with a first prize of $6,000.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Peter Rose |Arts Highlights
Enniscorthy, a town in County Wexford, was Colm Tóibín’s birthplace in 1955. His father was a schoolteacher and local historian. Micheál Tóibín died young, when Colm was twelve, an early loss explored in Tóibín’s novel Nora Webster (2014), in which the eponymous widow’s son Donal is likewise twelve and a stammerer. In 2009, Tóibín published Brooklyn, which moves between Enniscorthy and New York City.
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May 22, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Peter Rose |Arts Highlights
‘Everyone allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.’ So said Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey. Even allowing for Regency hyperbole, there is some truth in the sally. We think of the inimitable letters of Emily Dickinson, who once wrote to a succinct correspondent: ‘It were dearer had you protracted it, but the Sparrow must not propound his crumb.’ In 2001, Gregory Kratzmann edited A Steady Stream of Correspondence: Selected Letters of Gwen Harwood, 1943-1995.
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May 13, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Peter Rose |Arts Highlights
There was a real sense of occasion on Thursday evening before the opening performance of Melbourne Opera’s new production of Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, first performed in 1835, with a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on Sir Walter Scott’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor (1819). Bagpipes summoned us along Collins Street. Inside, the Athenaeum Theatre seemed close to full.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Peter Rose |Arts Highlights
In 2001 Peter Rose became the Editor of Australian Book Review. Previously he was a publisher at Oxford University Press throughout the 1990s. He has published several books of poetry, a family memoir, Rose Boys, and two novels, the most recent being Roddy Parr (Fourth Estate, 2010). He edited the 2007 and 2008 editions of The Best Australian Poems (Black Inc.). His newest book of poems is Rag (Gazebo Books, 2023).
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
independentaustralia.net | Therese Taylor |Peter Rose
A review of David McBride's autobiography has missed the point of the whistleblower's story and leans more towards character assassination, writes Therese Taylor.
DAVID MCBRIDE has been on trial for leaking Australian military secrets about war crimes in Afghanistan. He is now awaiting sentencing. Whatever the outcome, his life will never be the same.
‘All trials are trials for one’s life...’ ~ Oscar Wilde.
So, what was McBride’s life like, before he became Australia’s whistleblower?
