Daniel Todd
War Requiem in Wellington - and a Love Letter to Naxos
War Requiem in Wellington - and a Love Letter to Naxos Tomorrow, I will fly to Aotearoa-New Zealand to perform Britten’s War Requiem...
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Daniel Todd
Nov 1
East Meets West
East Meets West What a joy it was to perform for such enthusiastic audiences recently on the Bravo Cruise of the Performing Arts! After...
Daniel Todd
Oct 15
Winterreise Translations
Winterreise - Winter Journey (1828) Composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Poems by Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827) Abridged and translated by...
Daniel Todd
Oct 11
The Toxic Masculinity of Winterreise
The Toxic Masculinity of Winterreise Next week, I will be joined the wonderful pianist Sue Goessling to perform a couple of recitals on...
Daniel Todd
Oct 2
Hail Gilgamesh!
“I saw the deep...” Gilgamesh’s final words of the opera hang heavy in the air, as he turns to the light, leaving the realm of the gods....
Daniel Todd
Oct 4, 2023
Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte Poems (Ten Tenors South America Tour)
What a beautiful, energetic and culturally rich country! Our schedule in Brazil has been hectic, but there has been some time for...
Daniel Todd
Sep 29, 2023
Crossing the Andes (The Ten Tenors South America Tour)
After enjoying a couple of pisco sours during our layover in Santiago de Chile, our plane took off for São Paolo, Brazil. Within an hour...
Daniel Todd
Jun 2, 2023
The Grumpiest Boy, Hello Music and Victorian Opera: An Origin Story
I am so delighted to help bring together two organisations that have had a huge impact on my musical and artistic journey: Hello Music...
Daniel Todd
Mar 16, 2023
A Season of Fallow... almost!
Of all the challenges I have faced and overcome in recent years, one of the trickiest has been finding the self-discipline to rest. After...
Daniel Todd
Aug 27, 2022
100 Cinderellas; The Other Schönberg; Cairns Poems
I write this before walking to the theatre for our 100th performance of Cinderella. Coming from the opera world, it is wild to think of...
Daniel Todd
Feb 15, 2022
(M)alice in Wonderland; Forests' Shifting; On Being a Mixed-Race Performer
Over the last couple of weeks, I have been rehearsing Alice in Wonderland with the Australian Contemporary Opera Co (formerly Gertrude...
Daniel Todd
Dec 20, 2021
December? Are you kidding?
After months of touring, followed by a well-timed succession of writing and editing projects, I find myself stumbling into Christmas,...
Daniel Todd
Jun 14, 2021
473 Days Later...
Some wonderful news – I really don’t mind telling you! Today will be my first staged performance in an opera since before the pandemic!...
Daniel Todd
May 3, 2021
Shoshin and Oracles: My Beginner's Mind
In my first year of uni, one of the O-Week carnival attractions was an “oracle”. Students could enter a large tent made of shiny material...
Daniel Todd
Feb 25, 2021
FOREST COLLECTIVE: Diimpa interview - music, neurodiversity & the rhythm of place
On a hot February afternoon, Forest Collective Artistic Director Evan Lawson sat down with Diimpa over Forest Collective’s Instagram Live...
Daniel Todd
Feb 15, 2021
A Poem for Mum, and my VO Recital goes live!
Happy lunar new year! 恭喜發財！(gong xi fa cai!) It’s quite a marvellous thing that this traditional greeting for Chinese New Year doesn’t...
Daniel Todd
Jan 19, 2021
FOREST COLLECTIVE: Pivoting to 2021 - Diimpa at Heide
It is a grey January morning and the musicians of Forest Collective have gathered together again at the Abbotsford Convent. We had been...
Daniel Todd
Jan 2, 2021
New Poems, Ancient Poems
As the new year rolls in, there are a lot of reflective pieces being published about ‘the hellish year that was’ and the profound lessons...
Daniel Todd
Nov 1, 2020
Singing Across Generations - Thoughts ahead of NAIDOC Week
It's been a while since my last blog. Over the last six weeks, I had been struck with another brutish bought of fatigue. While western...
Daniel Todd
Aug 18, 2020
The Narrow Road to Right Here
It seems we are all learning difficult lessons in resilience, patience and dealing with disappointment at the moment. I write from...
Daniel Todd
Jul 10, 2020
A Winter’s Stroll
Each morning I wake to find a single leaf sprouting from the end of each finger. Like the stubby slender stalks of a pagoda tree, my...
Daniel Todd
Jun 18, 2020
Blunted, Blooming and Listening with your Body
I haven’t written a blog in some time. To be perfectly honest, I have been feeling quite blunted and blocked. Although many people have...
Daniel Todd
Apr 23, 2020
Negotiating Self-Pity, Editing for the UN, Taiwanese Art Song and The Good Life.
Like so many artists out there, losing all my work, then finding out that I wasn’t eligible for any of the COVID-related government...
Daniel Todd
Mar 13, 2020
Facing Chronic Fatigue and Chinese 12 Tone Music.
Early autumn has come upon us, and I quietly long for the sweet-scented osmanthus flowers that accompany the reddening maple leaves of...
Daniel Todd
Jan 22, 2020
Forests to Stave Off Despair - ECOSIA: Easy Tree Planting - Forest Collective.
My thoughts on what to write this month have been somewhat hijacked by the unprecedented bushfires that have ripped through the east...
Daniel Todd
Dec 22, 2019
December Reflections - New Recordings - Upcoming Gigs
It was such a pleasure to make some audition videos in LA recently with the editing and directing mastery of Adam Taylor and the camera...
Daniel Todd
Nov 12, 2019
Sibling Duets, Performance Psychology, the Ancient Qin and the Messiah
Janet Todd! That darling and talented sister of mine and her terrific film-making partner Adam Taylor have been my gracious hosts here in LA
Daniel Todd
Oct 8, 2019
Poppea, oh my word...!
Rarely have I ever been part of something so beautiful and brutal. Gale Edward’s stunning vision for Monteverdi’s Poppea with Yarra...
Daniel Todd
Sep 9, 2019
Flaubert, Spring and a Poem
Herr Lenz springt heute durch die Stadt in einer blauen Hose, and so has he sprung betrousered upon Melbourne...
Daniel Todd
Aug 19, 2019
Returning to Melbourne and Monteverdi
Melbourne and Monteverdi. Repatriation and rococo. I've relocated back to Australia and there are some exciting projects coming up! After...
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War Requiem in Wellington - and a Love Letter to Naxos
War Requiem in Wellington - and a Love Letter to Naxos Tomorrow, I will fly to Aotearoa-New Zealand to perform Britten’s War Requiem...
Daniel Todd
Nov 1
East Meets West
East Meets West What a joy it was to perform for such enthusiastic audiences recently on the Bravo Cruise of the Performing Arts! After...
Daniel Todd
Oct 15
Winterreise Translations
Winterreise - Winter Journey (1828) Composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Poems by Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827) Abridged and translated by...
Daniel Todd
Oct 11
The Toxic Masculinity of Winterreise
The Toxic Masculinity of Winterreise Next week, I will be joined the wonderful pianist Sue Goessling to perform a couple of recitals on...
Daniel Todd
Oct 2
Hail Gilgamesh!
“I saw the deep...” Gilgamesh’s final words of the opera hang heavy in the air, as he turns to the light, leaving the realm of the gods....
Daniel Todd
Oct 4, 2023
Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte Poems (Ten Tenors South America Tour)
What a beautiful, energetic and culturally rich country! Our schedule in Brazil has been hectic, but there has been some time for...
Daniel Todd
Sep 29, 2023
Crossing the Andes (The Ten Tenors South America Tour)
After enjoying a couple of pisco sours during our layover in Santiago de Chile, our plane took off for São Paolo, Brazil. Within an hour...
Daniel Todd
Jun 2, 2023
The Grumpiest Boy, Hello Music and Victorian Opera: An Origin Story
I am so delighted to help bring together two organisations that have had a huge impact on my musical and artistic journey: Hello Music...
Daniel Todd
Mar 16, 2023
A Season of Fallow... almost!
Of all the challenges I have faced and overcome in recent years, one of the trickiest has been finding the self-discipline to rest. After...
Daniel Todd
Aug 27, 2022
100 Cinderellas; The Other Schönberg; Cairns Poems
I write this before walking to the theatre for our 100th performance of Cinderella. Coming from the opera world, it is wild to think of...
Daniel Todd
Feb 15, 2022
(M)alice in Wonderland; Forests' Shifting; On Being a Mixed-Race Performer
Over the last couple of weeks, I have been rehearsing Alice in Wonderland with the Australian Contemporary Opera Co (formerly Gertrude...
Daniel Todd
Dec 20, 2021
December? Are you kidding?
After months of touring, followed by a well-timed succession of writing and editing projects, I find myself stumbling into Christmas,...
Daniel Todd
Jun 14, 2021
473 Days Later...
Some wonderful news – I really don’t mind telling you! Today will be my first staged performance in an opera since before the pandemic!...
Daniel Todd
May 3, 2021
Shoshin and Oracles: My Beginner's Mind
In my first year of uni, one of the O-Week carnival attractions was an “oracle”. Students could enter a large tent made of shiny material...
Daniel Todd
Feb 25, 2021
FOREST COLLECTIVE: Diimpa interview - music, neurodiversity & the rhythm of place
On a hot February afternoon, Forest Collective Artistic Director Evan Lawson sat down with Diimpa over Forest Collective’s Instagram Live...
Daniel Todd
Feb 15, 2021
A Poem for Mum, and my VO Recital goes live!
Happy lunar new year! 恭喜發財！(gong xi fa cai!) It’s quite a marvellous thing that this traditional greeting for Chinese New Year doesn’t...
Daniel Todd
Jan 19, 2021
FOREST COLLECTIVE: Pivoting to 2021 - Diimpa at Heide
It is a grey January morning and the musicians of Forest Collective have gathered together again at the Abbotsford Convent. We had been...
Daniel Todd
Jan 2, 2021
New Poems, Ancient Poems
As the new year rolls in, there are a lot of reflective pieces being published about ‘the hellish year that was’ and the profound lessons...
Daniel Todd
Nov 1, 2020
Singing Across Generations - Thoughts ahead of NAIDOC Week
It's been a while since my last blog. Over the last six weeks, I had been struck with another brutish bought of fatigue. While western...
Daniel Todd
Aug 18, 2020
The Narrow Road to Right Here
It seems we are all learning difficult lessons in resilience, patience and dealing with disappointment at the moment. I write from...
Daniel Todd
Jul 10, 2020
A Winter’s Stroll
Each morning I wake to find a single leaf sprouting from the end of each finger. Like the stubby slender stalks of a pagoda tree, my...
Daniel Todd
Jun 18, 2020
Blunted, Blooming and Listening with your Body
I haven’t written a blog in some time. To be perfectly honest, I have been feeling quite blunted and blocked. Although many people have...
Daniel Todd
Apr 23, 2020
Negotiating Self-Pity, Editing for the UN, Taiwanese Art Song and The Good Life.
Like so many artists out there, losing all my work, then finding out that I wasn’t eligible for any of the COVID-related government...
Daniel Todd
Mar 13, 2020
Facing Chronic Fatigue and Chinese 12 Tone Music.
Early autumn has come upon us, and I quietly long for the sweet-scented osmanthus flowers that accompany the reddening maple leaves of...
Daniel Todd
Jan 22, 2020
Forests to Stave Off Despair - ECOSIA: Easy Tree Planting - Forest Collective.
My thoughts on what to write this month have been somewhat hijacked by the unprecedented bushfires that have ripped through the east...
Daniel Todd
Dec 22, 2019
December Reflections - New Recordings - Upcoming Gigs
It was such a pleasure to make some audition videos in LA recently with the editing and directing mastery of Adam Taylor and the camera...
Daniel Todd
Nov 12, 2019
Sibling Duets, Performance Psychology, the Ancient Qin and the Messiah
Janet Todd! That darling and talented sister of mine and her terrific film-making partner Adam Taylor have been my gracious hosts here in LA
Daniel Todd
Oct 8, 2019
Poppea, oh my word...!
Rarely have I ever been part of something so beautiful and brutal. Gale Edward’s stunning vision for Monteverdi’s Poppea with Yarra...
Daniel Todd
Sep 9, 2019
Flaubert, Spring and a Poem
Herr Lenz springt heute durch die Stadt in einer blauen Hose, and so has he sprung betrousered upon Melbourne...
Daniel Todd
Aug 19, 2019
Returning to Melbourne and Monteverdi
Melbourne and Monteverdi. Repatriation and rococo. I've relocated back to Australia and there are some exciting projects coming up! After...
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