Culture

For tenor Stuart Skelton, Parsifal, Richard Wagner’s final opera, is the jewel in the crown of the controversial German composer.

Comedian Richard Gadd’s whip-smart Netflix hit, Baby Reindeer, is compelling because it refuses to simplify the realities of trauma.

Director Hirokazu Kore-eda is acclaimed for his films about families. His latest, Monster, breaks new ground with a soundtrack featuring the final work of Ryuichi Sakamoto.

The first production in Queensland Theatre’s independent program – Big Scary Animal’s The Norman Mailer Anecdote – is a winner.

Goran Stolevski’s latest film, Housekeeping  for Beginners, shows his trademark daring as a filmmaker but stumbles over the plot’s increasing implausibility.

He sees them again the next day. And the next day. They look at him and he looks at them and sometimes it’s like they’re looking through each other but, of course, that’s not possible.

When violinist Madeleine Easton first played Bach’s cantata ‘Christ lag in Todes Banden’, she started spontaneously crying. In that moment, her world changed.