January 2023
How a $100 gift to a girl in Mildura led to international opera fame
Victorian-born soprano Siobhan Stagg is in huge demand from opera companies and orchestras worldwide. But her career could just as easily never happened.
- Philippa Coates
December 2022
This world-famous conductor is now a film star
Internationally acclaimed conductor Simone Young is back home as chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony, hanging out with Cate Blanchett and a bit bored with the whole woman thing.
- Clare Morgan
October 2021
‘As big as it gets’: Simone Young on reopening Opera House
The first sound heard in Sydney Opera House’s new concert hall will be clap sticks made from the floor of the old one, in a piece by Indigenous composer William Barton.
- Michael Bailey
December 2019
Meet the Sydney Symphony's new conductor
Fresh from conducting Mahler at the Opera House, Simone Young will be the chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from 2022.
- Michael Bailey
November 2019
My Vienna: Simone Young lives and breathes the city’s musical heritage
By her reckoning, the Australian conductor has led a staggering 150 performances in the city of Mozart and Beethoven, Mahler and Strauss.
- Luke Slattery