For The Page and the Stage
Highly selected & recent essays, articles, critiques and commentary
Bryce Dessner’s Solo Recording a Beautiful Paradox November 2024
In the Service of Society: How an International cultural policy can set new paradigms for cultural diplomacy to enrich, embrace and elevate our future ENCATC ISBN ISBN: 978-92-990088-7-4 October 2024
Salome at Paris Opera - Women take care !! Classical Voice North America May 2024
Teodor Currentzis with Utopia in Berlin May 2024
The Constellations of the Adelaide Festival Classical Voice North America March 2024
Translating a Nobel Prize Winner The Guardian, December 2023
Ridiculous Virtuosity Asko|Schoenberg Ensemble at Concertgebouw October 2023
Bergen Festival 2023 Classical Voice North America July 2023
Slow Beethoven 20 May 2023 Classical Voice North America
Brodsky String Quartet and William Barton 3 May 2023 Classical Voice North America
Will women overturn the world of conducting? ENTER THE CONDUCTRICE | Essay AEON January 2023
IL PUNTO Il difficile mestiere di direttrice d’orchestra (che forse cambierà il modo di dirigere le orchestre) | Corriere della Sera January 2023
Lyric of an Anti-opera Sun and Sea | Classical Voice North America Review January 2023
Mahler Ninth In Paris: Dudamel, Opera Band Offer Restrained Drama Classical Voice North America September 21, 2022
The Future of Cultural Diplomacy Diplomatic Courier July 2022
Global Issues, Diverse Perspectives Set Edge On 75th Holland Fest Classical Voice North America June 30, 2022
Bridge to a Sensory Realm Australian Financial Review April 2022
Fresh from a Recording Studio: Ruth Slenczynska Classical Voice North America 23 March 2022
Boston Lyric Opera and Svadba | Classical Voice North America 11 March 2022
Addressing the representation of Black composers in Classical Music | Classical Voice North America November 2021
Simone Dinnerstein @ The Butler performing Richard Danielpour | Classical Voice North America October 2021
Festivals in Crisis, an essay | Overland | September 2021
Festival Drama is an Ode To Human Resilience In Face Of Human Frailty Psyche AEON July 2021
The Soundtrack of our Lives An Essay on the Art of your Inner Amateur Psyche AEON June 2021
Women of Note | The Canberra Times April 2021
Four Winds Festival makes connections with land and spirit | The Australian April 2021
Australian Music Fest Offers Contemplation Amid Nature’s Realm | Classical Voice North America April 2021
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Chamber Music Series Casts Revelatory Light On Black Composers | Classical Voice North America March 2021
Isolation, Anxiety: Pandemic In Music For Soulful Voices | Classical Voice North America January 2021
Music is a Philosophy Rich In Ideas | Essay Psyche AEON September 2020
Dinnerstein Probes Depths Of Stillness In Schubert, Glass | Review |
Writing to Andriessen | Book Review | Classical Voice North America |
Adelaide Festival 2020 | Adelaide Review | March 2020
Adelaide Festival 2020 | Breaking the Waves | Adelaide Review | 2020
The Art of the Festival Perth Festival | Adelaide Review | 2020
Sydney Festival 2020 | The Log Journal National Sawdust New York | February 2020
Sydney Festival | Classical Voice North America | January 2020
Chicago’s Grammy Mojo | The Chicago Tribune | January 2020
Verdi Requiem at The Shed New York | Classical Voice North America | November 2019
Zauberland, White Light Festival, Lincoln Center for the Art | Classical Voice North America | November 2019
Janis Brenner and Muyassar Kurdi | Lessons in Laughter and Lineage | National Sawdust Log October 2019
Ultima Arts Festival Norway | To the Moon and Back | Classical Voice North America | September 2019
Oped on Music Competitions: Much Prized | Limelight | Online and September issue | September 2019
Sweet Music to Save the World | Kronos Quartet Feature | The Australian | September 2019
Holes in the Sky | National Sawdust | The Log Journal | September 2019
The Art of the Festival - Oped | International Arts Manager | August 2019
Ice celebrates gifts of Iranian Women | Mostly Mozart | Classical Voice North America | August 2019
Pavarotti : Film Review: Genius is Forever | Limelight | July 2019
Boulez, Twyla Tharp and the Creed of Curiosity | New Music Box | February 2019
Creative Fare Piques Curiosity and Sensibilities | Creative Fest Fare Piques Curiosity And Sensibilities | May 2019
The Xen of Opera | Women making their mark in Opera | April 2019
Composer as Social Interlocutor April 2019
Julia Wolfe World Premiere Fire in my My Mouth | Classical Voice North America | January 2019
Ultima Festival Laurie Anderson: The Language of the Future | The Log Journal | October 2018
Tan Dun Premiere: Fire Ritual | Classical Voice North America | September 2018
Opera Saratoga Rocking Horse a Thrilling Winner Classical Voice North America | 6 July 2018
The Metropolitan Opera "Cavalleria Rusticana" London Financial Times 9 January 2018
The Metropolitan Opera, "Norma" London Financial Times | December 2017
Prague's Collegium 1704 Feature Article La Scena Musicale | October 2017
The Verbier Festival 2017 An excursion in opulence | La Scena Musicale | July 2017
Silence, Voice and the Dialogic Scream Arts and International Affairs, The Arts Journal | July 2017
The Fifteenth Cliburn International Piano Competition, La Scena Musicale | June 2017
The New Commandments of Cultural Diplomacy The Log Journal | April 2017
Philippe Bourque's Elijah La Scena Musicale | March 2017
Reflection: Prototype Festival: New York The Log Journal | January 2017
A reflection on Handel's Ariodante at National Sawdust (New York) The Log Journal @ National Sawdust December 2016
Pharrell Williams, Bob Dylan & Christopher Cerrone New York Festival of Song | December 2016
L' Amour de Loin: The Metropolitan Opera La Scena Musicale | December 2016
Four Days at the Verbier Festival (Switzerland) La Scena Musicale | July 2016
Marina Abramović’s “Goldberg” and Anri Sala’s “Ravel Ravel” The Park Avenue Armory and The New Museum (New York) Music and Literature Marina Abamovic's Goldberg and Anri Sala's Ravel Ravel | February 2016
Laurie Anderson: Habeas Corpus. The Park Avenue Armory (New York) Music and Literature
A Giant Leap for a Curator: Melissa Chiu The Australian (New York) | 2014
Australian Artists play with emblems at Whitney Biennale New York 2014 ABC: Ricky Swallow and Jeff Gibson
Creative Sanctuary The Age: Featured Essay
Beyond Recognition: The photograph behind the artist: Laurie Anderson, Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush and Germaine Greer
The Age: Cover Essay
Pioneer with a Rainbow Voice: An interview with Dawn Upshaw
The Age: Feature
Lending Aural Support: Some of our best acts put their egos aside in honor of Leonard Cohen
The Age: Feature
Notes from a lethal love affair
The Age: Notes from a lethal love affair
Selected commentary and reviews
Book Review: Existentialism and Romantic Love Review published JPR Studies Journal August 2016
How do you change a stereotype?
The Age: The role of Cultural Diplomacy
The Lost Art of DoodlingThe Sydney Morning Herald
In death, complex artist’s legacies will take on a life of their own: Amy Winehouse
The Sydney Morning Herald
Selected Recent Radio Words
Cutting edge Contemporary Opera in New York from Nico Muhly at The Met to Kamala Sankaram’s Thumbprint at Prototype Festival New York
ABC Radio National
Korean and Australia Year of Friendship
ABC Radio Australia
For the Stage
The Singing Lesson
A new choral work for SSAA, Music by Stein Eide | Words by Xenia Hanusiak
Text from “Diary of a Song”
Published by Universal Edition
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Ward B
A Dramatic Monologue
Play Xenia Hanusiak
Music David Franzke
R.E. Ross Trust Award, Literature Board (Australia Council)
Script available on application
“In Ward B, Xenia Hanusiak summons an extraordinary voice. A Chinese man, wrongly condemned, makes an account of his life in a strange Pidgin English he has taught himself. Notions about race and prejudice are inherent in the grammar of the text, rendered with a compelling musicality.”
Judging Panel RE Ross Trust Awards
Earth Songs
A music theatre work for pansori, opera singer, indigenous
Australian performers, Sharman, Aura ensemble, videography
Music Cecilia Heejong Kim
Homart Theatre Seoul (Korea), Melbourne Recital Centre (Melbourne), Sydney Conservatorium of Music (Sydney)
Into the Musical Portal
An Insight into Earth Songs
“Earth Songs … a beguiling amalgam of ancient and modern cultural traditions.” The Age
A thousand doors, a thousand windows
Music theatre for soprano, electronics and videography
Libretto Xenia Hanusiak
Composer Constantine Koukias
Video Cazerine Barry
Word Premiere Melbourne International Arts festival, Sydney Festival, Ten Days on the Island Festival, National Multicultural Arts Festival, Mildura Arts Festival, The Esplanade (Singapore), Shanghai Spring Music Festival
“Hanusiak has a solid reputation in contemporary music, not only for her collaborations but also for her own works, in particular A thousand doors, a thousand windows which has enjoyed exceptional public approbation.” The Age
“It was a thoroughly engrossing musico-theatrical experience …” Opera, opera
“It’s a powerful piece …”
The Australian
Un_labelled
For Children’s Chorus
Composer: Elena Kats-Chernin
Text: Xenia Hanusiak and Elena Kats-Chernin
Young People’s Chorus of New York City, Premiere New York City NY. Published by Boosey and Hawkes, CD Recording, Transient Glory
The Mstaken Identity
A Dramatic monologue for Soprano and String Quartet
Libretto Xenia Hanusiak
Composer Elena Kats-Chernin
Australian String Quartet and Xenia Hanusiak (Soprano)
Premiere performance 2000 Adelaide Festival of Arts, Australia. Published by Boosey and Hawkes, Recording Australia Council/ABC
In the Service of Beauty
A Dance Opera
Libretto Xenia Hanusiak
Music Elena Kats-Chernin