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Colonials mess with Shakespeare and get a global hit

Making Shakespeare's longest play into a successful opera is no easy feat, but an adaptation by "a bunch of colonials" is premiering at the Sydney Opera House.

AAP · Jul 17, 2024

Betts-Dean/Armida Quartet review – drama and charisma as Brett Dean, and daughter, turn to Mary Queen of Scots

Matthew Jocelyn and Brett Dean’s 2021 song cycle based on the Scottish Queen’s letters was perfectly partnered with Dean’s new arrangement of Schumann, and Janáček’s second string quartet

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2024

LPO/Gardner at the Royal Festival Hall: Brett Dean’s premiere showed a right royal row (again)

This new work by the orchestra’s composer-in-residence oscillated between the dramatic and the contemplative

Evening Standard · Apr 27, 2023