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25/07/2006
"For every hundred begging letters you write, maybe you get one response,'' sighs Maria Vandamme, founder and artistic director of the Australian classical label Melba Recordings. While she looks exhausted just talking about it, it seems to...
22/07/2006
A small Australian record label is daring to take an untrodden path with SACD, Michael Quinn reports
Is the recording industry dying? If the fate of the so-called major labels is any indication, then yes it is. With Warner Classics the latest high...
15/07/2006
... In June there was a great advance for Australian Wagnerites: Melba Recordings' excellent Die Walküre, taken from the State Opera of South Australia's Ring performances in Adelaide in late 2004. The three other operas are to follow ... [so here]...
1/07/2006
Two years ago Maria Vandamme received an interesting proposition. As head of Melba Recordings she was approached by the State Opera of South Australia to record the first Australian production of Der Ring des Nibelungen.
During her many years as a...
19/06/2006
Her big voice graces a new Wagner recording as Lisa Gasteen heads home to sing 'Salome'.
When she was little, says Wagnerian diva Lisa Gasteen, her family called her "the peacock baby". A few of those famous operatic throat muscles come into play...
7/06/2006
The launch of Die Walküre took place in great style at the Australian Club in Melbourne on 7 June 2006. The Federal Arts Minister, Senator Rod Kemp launched the recording and performing were two of The Melba Ring singers – mezzo Donna Marie-...
25/05/2006
After two years of hard grind, Maria Vandamme is set to take Adelaide's Ring cycle to the world. But her critics have not gone away, writes Katrina Strickland.
Maria Vandamme was ecstatic when she was awarded $5 million in the May 2004 federal...
22/05/2005
What is the key to reaching the top? Steve Dow talks to ... Australia's high achievers - from fields as diverse as business, charity, media and medicine - to find out how they succeeded and what they would tell those hoping to ascend the ladder...
14/01/2004
"It's impossible to be too romantic' Barker said ... '[Puccini's] music is romantic, dramatic and as a performer it's fantastic music to sing ... I love all of that passion and drama.' Barker ... has come to be known as an expert in the Puccini...
10/01/2004
Cheryl Barker has sung Cio-Cio-San in so many productions, it is virtually the strikingly beautiful Australian soprano's calling card. Puccini is the core of her repertoire, which will be extended when she sings her first Tosca for English National...
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