The identity of Australia is being destroyed. Our latest fertility figures show Australian women have never had fewer babies per person in our lifetime – just 1.5 per woman. To replace ourselves ...
Spiralis says its energy converter is inspired by seashells but built to be resilient and durable. A screw-like tidal energy converter design built by UK-based Spiralis Energy is now a step closer ...
David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...
As a result, an almost indecent lushness hits us from both singers and orchestra in the orgiastic climaxes near the ends of each act (few in the audience will be aware of them as peak statements of ...
Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, based on Henry James’s ghost story, is – usually – a taut, tense and terrifying opera, concentrated into just seven singers and an orchestra of 13.
If one mark of a great masterpiece is its ability to withstand continual reinterpretations, then Benjamin Britten’s 1954 chamber opera The Turn of the Screw is up there with the greatest.
Copy Link This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with William Fulford, a 76-year-old retired homebuilder who bought what he believes is a "hurricane-proof" home in Hunters Point ...