Bill Henson, the greatest Australian photographer, has a show at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery at 6pm Friday 16 May.
It’s exciting that Melbourne Opera are putting on that very grand and moving French opera Samson and Delilah at Melbourne’s Palais on 1 and 2 June. It is one of the mightiest of all operas and it has a tragic intensity of form that makes it Saint-Saëns one opera that has stayed in the catalogue where he is otherwise best known for that playful piece Carnival of the Animals.
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