War Requiem in Wellington - and a Love Letter to Naxos Tomorrow, I will fly to Aotearoa-New Zealand to perform Britten’s War Requiem...

East Meets West What a joy it was to perform for such enthusiastic audiences recently on the Bravo Cruise of the Performing Arts! After...

Winterreise - Winter Journey (1828) Composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Poems by Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827) Abridged and translated by...

The Toxic Masculinity of Winterreise Next week, I will be joined the wonderful pianist Sue Goessling to perform a couple of recitals on...

“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....

What a beautiful, energetic and culturally rich country! Our schedule in Brazil has been hectic, but there has been some time for...

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...

I am so delighted to help bring together two organisations that have had a huge impact on my musical and artistic journey: Hello Music...

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...

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...

Over the last couple of weeks, I have been rehearsing Alice in Wonderland with the Australian Contemporary Opera Co (formerly Gertrude...

After months of touring, followed by a well-timed succession of writing and editing projects, I find myself stumbling into Christmas,...

Some wonderful news – I really don’t mind telling you! Today will be my first staged performance in an opera since before the pandemic!...

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...

On a hot February afternoon, Forest Collective Artistic Director Evan Lawson sat down with Diimpa over Forest Collective’s Instagram 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...

It is a grey January morning and the musicians of Forest Collective have gathered together again at the Abbotsford Convent. We had been...

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...

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...

It seems we are all learning difficult lessons in resilience, patience and dealing with disappointment at the moment. I write from...

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...

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...

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...

Early autumn has come upon us, and I quietly long for the sweet-scented osmanthus flowers that accompany the reddening maple leaves of...

My thoughts on what to write this month have been somewhat hijacked by the unprecedented bushfires that have ripped through the east...

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...

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

Rarely have I ever been part of something so beautiful and brutal. Gale Edward’s stunning vision for Monteverdi’s Poppea with Yarra...

Herr Lenz springt heute durch die Stadt in einer blauen Hose, and so has he sprung betrousered upon Melbourne...

Melbourne and Monteverdi. Repatriation and rococo. I've relocated back to Australia and there are some exciting projects coming up! After...