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The late Patric Standford may have written these short pieces deliberately to provoke our feedback. If so, his success is reflected in the rich range of readers' comments appearing at the foot of most of the pages.
David Mitchell is an Australian amateur music enthusiast.
He fell in love with classical music and opera in his early twenties and made good use of the under-thirty rates for concert and opera subscriptions.
Every year at Christmas to escape the Australian heat, he makes a pilgrimage to the great opera houses of Germany.
Unfortunately, he has a large compact disc collection gathering dust as he moves into the world of music streaming.
Australia's first production of 'Il viaggio a Reims'
David Mitchell reviews Pinchgut Opera's production of Vivaldi's 'Farnace'
Nina Stemme returns to Australia to sing Wagner