23-557: The Herald Sun Aria , formerly known as The Sun Aria (because it was sponsored by The Sun News-Pictorial ) is a vocal competition for emerging opera singers held in Victoria, Australia, each year. The competition offers nearly $ 60,000 in cash prizes. The competition forms the aria section of the Royal South Street Eisteddfod , Australia's oldest and largest eisteddfod. Three of the most famous winners of
46-561: A badly needed technical upgrade of the newspaper's production. The Sun News-Pictorial became the highest-circulating daily in Australia, and at times the world, outselling its rivals three to one. One substantial reason for its high level of daily sales was that The Sun News-Pictorial offered a free life-insurance policy to each of those who subscribed for regular daily home delivery of the newspaper (i.e., rather than those who bought it occasionally from street vendors or newsagents), and
69-482: A press artist and part-time cartoonist on The Mercury , drawing under the name "Jeff". He moved to Melbourne and started at The Sun News-Pictorial in 1964. Hook became the full-time cartoonist for The Sun News-Pictorial (later to be merged with the afternoon newspaper The Herald to become the Herald Sun ). Jeff was famous for hiding a fishhook in his cartoons, which became his "trademark", and looking for
92-673: Is a Scots Gaelic association, founded in Geelong in 1856 The Sun-Pictorial sponsored an Aria Prize in conjunction with Geelong's festival in 1925 and subsequently. The last contest was in 1933. Notable winners include Marjorie Lawrence in 1928. The newspaper offered similar prizes for the Bendigo musical, literary, and elocutionary competitions held in May 1925 and every year thereafter to 1936. Results 1925–1930 have not been found. The newspaper offered two prizes each year from 1933 to 1941, there
115-515: The Herald-Sun . The Sun News-Pictorial was part of The Herald and Weekly Times stable of Melbourne newspapers. For more than fifty years it was the newspaper with the largest circulation in Australia . In 1930, more than 650,000 copies were sold each day. Along with its extensive coverage of Australian rules football (for example, it was responsible for the competition that produced
138-549: The Aria competition are Wagnerian soprano Marjorie Lawrence (1928) and Dames Malvina Major (1964) and Kiri Te Kanawa in 1965. Others include June Bronhill (1950), Jonathan Summers (1973), Judith Henley (1976), Suzanne Ward (1984), Linda Thompson (1990), Rachelle Durkin (2000), and Nicole Car (2007). The heats (generally two) of the competition are held annually in September at Her Majesty's Theatre, Ballarat , and
161-517: The HWT, by which time The Sun News-Pictorial was on its way to becoming Australia's highest-selling newspaper. An early editor who has been given much of the credit for the paper's success was Lloyd Dumas . The Sun News-Pictorial 's main competitors were the broadsheets The Argus and The Age . The Argus was a morning daily newspaper in Melbourne, published since 1846 and considered to be
184-658: The Honkerzoid and Planet of the Honkerzoids , written by one of his sons, Brendan, and a children's book of his own, Jamie the Jumbo Jet , which was first published in the mid-1970s, and was revised and reprinted in 1998. After retiring from full-time cartooning, Hook was awarded the Australian Black and White Artists Club 's Silver Stanley Award for lifetime achievement in 1998; and, on 20 March 2009, he
207-600: The award for the Best Political Cartoon at The International Cartoon Festival at Knokke-Heist , Belgium , and in 1991 he won the award for Best Press Cartoon at the same Festival. Hook retired from the Herald Sun in early 1993, but continued to freelance, doing a regular editorial cartoon for the Sunday Herald Sun while devoting his time primarily to painting. That continued until
230-406: The competition, and choose one of these to sing in the heat. Sixteen semi-finalists are selected from those singing in the heats to appear on the evening following the second heat, again at Her Majesty's Theatre and sing another aria, this time chosen from their list by the panel of adjudicators. Five finalists are then chosen to compete in the final at Hamer Hall, Melbourne . ' Comunn-na-Feinne
253-549: The final is held at Hamer Hall in the Arts Centre Melbourne in early November. Finalists are accompanied by Orchestra Victoria , conducted by Maestro Richard Divall AO, OBE. The competition has a panel of three adjudicators, and Richard Divall has been a panel member since 2001. The other adjudicators in 2014 were Roxane Hislop and Tiffany Speight. Contestants, who are aged 32 years or under, are required to submit four aria titles from grand opera prior to
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#1732790936392276-445: The general Australian newspaper of record for this period. Widely known as a conservative newspaper for most of its history, it adopted a left -leaning approach in 1949, and after twenty years of financial losses, closed on 19 January 1957. The other competitor over the life of the newspaper was the more liberal -minded The Age , a daily newspaper that had been published in Melbourne since 1854. David Syme became sole proprietor of
299-642: The hidden fishhook became a widespread morning pastime amongst readers of The Sun News-Pictorial . Hook first gained international recognition in 1967 for his cartoon about the end of the Six-Day War , "The three wiser men", which was re-published widely outside Australia, including in The London Times . In 1987, Hook won the award for Humorous Illustration in the Australian Black and White Artists Club 's Bulletin Awards. Also in 1987, Geoff won
322-444: The insurance policy (valued at somewhere near 12 months' average wages) was current for the duration of that household's subscription. The Sun News-Pictorial ceased publication on 6 October 1990 and merged with sister evening newspaper The Herald to form the Herald-Sun , which contained columns and features from both of its predecessors. Jeff Hook Geoffrey Raynor Hook OAM (27 December 1928 – 20 July 2018 )
345-660: The original VFL/AFL team songs), The Sun News-Pictorial distinguished itself with its photography, columns, and cartoons. Its longest-running column was "A Place in the Sun", originally written by Keith Dunstan , founder of the Anti-Football League , and later Graeme "Jacko" Johnstone. The award-winning cartoonist Jeff Hook became the full-time cartoonist for The Sun News-Pictorial in 1964. Keith Murdoch became editor-in-chief of The Herald in January 1921. When
368-427: The paper in 1891, and he built it up into Victoria's leading newspaper, soon overtaking its rivals The Herald and The Argus . By 1890 it was selling 100,000 copies a day, making it one of the world's most successful newspapers, but Syme's will prevented the sale of any equity in the paper during his sons' lifetimes, which had the unintended consequence of starving the paper of investment capital for 40 years; The Age
391-403: The paper, he modernised its appearance and standards of news coverage by removing classified advertisements from the front page and introducing photographs long after other papers had done so. In 1948, realising the paper needed outside the capital, Oswald persuaded the courts to overturn his father's will and floated David Syme and Co. as a public company, selling £400,000 worth of shares to enable
414-513: The proprietor of the Sydney Sun tried to break into the Melbourne market in 1922 with the launch of The Evening Sun and The Sun News-Pictorial , Murdoch fought a long campaign which eventually resulted in the formation of The Herald and Weekly Times ( HWT ), with the circulation of The Herald up by 50%, taking over the two tabloids in 1925. Murdoch closed the afternoon rival The Evening Sun . In 1928, Murdoch became managing director of
437-608: The year 2000, when he largely stopped cartooning after holding his first exhibition at the Australian Guild of Realist Artists (AGRA) gallery and pursued his love of painting full-time. After that, Hook exhibited widely at regional art shows and galleries in Australia and held a second exhibition at the AGRA Gallery in 2005. Over the course of his career, Hook did numerous cartoons and illustrations for papers, magazines and 46 books, including two children's books Harry
460-723: Was an Australian artist and editorial cartoonist . Hook was married to Pauline from 1961 and had five children. After attending St Virgil's College , Hobart, Hook started as a cadet press artist on the Hobart Mercury and completed a course in graphic arts at the Hobart Technical College (now Tasmanian School of Art, a faculty of the University of Tasmania ) which included tuition in fine arts under Jack Carington Smith , Margaret Chandler, Harry Buckey and Edith Holmes . He started his career as
483-543: Was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Melbourne Press Club . In January 2012, he was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for "services to the print media as a political and social commentator, and as a cartoonist". Hook was a Life Member of the Australian Black and White Artists Club (now Australian Cartoonists' Association), a life Member of The Melbourne Press Club, a life member of
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#1732790936392506-572: Was none held 1942–1945 and a single prize thereafter. It became a section of the Sydney Eisteddfod in 1949. Notable prizewinners include Joan Sutherland in 1949 and June Gough, better known as June Bronhill , in 1950. The Sun News-Pictorial The Sun News-Pictorial (known as The Sun ) was a morning daily tabloid newspaper published in Melbourne , Victoria , from 1922 until its merger in 1990 with The Herald to form
529-505: Was unable to modernise, and gradually lost market share to The Argus and The Sun News-Pictorial , with only its classified advertisement sections keeping the paper profitable. By the 1940s, the paper's circulation was lower than it had been in 1900, and its political influence had also declined to the extent that while it remained more liberal than the extremely conservative Argus , it lost much of its distinct political identity. After David Syme's last surviving son, Oswald Syme, took over
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