Soprano Patricia Rozario is in Brisbane this week to sing the music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks in a festival of Indian music. Born in Mumbai, she has been the muse and foremost interpreter of the vocal music of John Tavener and Arvo Part.
Set for release on March 2025, Halcyon has a new recording How Far We’ve Come Together… devoted to just one instrumental combination of voice and cello.
This feature from npr asks whether good orchestras really need conductors. If you were at the Sydney Symphony’s opening night of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pique Dame’ on Saturday, the answer would be quite obvious. A scientist at the University of Maryland has tried to define the relationship between musicians and their conductor: Click here to read
Conductor Riccardo Muti has been named as the second recipient of the biggest prize in classical music – the Birgit Nilsson Prize. The prize of a million dollars, is a bequest of the late Swedish soprano who died in 2005 aged 87. It is awarded every 2- 3 years for outstanding achievement in opera or concert by…
In April, 86 of Sydney Youth Orchestras’ most talented young musicians aged 16 to 25 and drawn from the greater Sydney region, embark on a landmark music education tour of Europe. The Sydney Youth Orchestra’s European tour will visit magnificent cities that are hubs of music, commencing in Vienna and travelling through Budapest, Salzburg, Prague…
This month, Sydney has a feast of fare with concerts that feature some fabulous performers, ensembles and composers. THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A DAME Opera megastar Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is celebrating her 70th birthday with a gala tour performing a selection of her personal favourites with Terence Dennis at the piano. Dame Kiri’s career…
If you remember soprano Sumi Jo’s sudden departure from Sydney and the role of Lucia and the more recent cancellations of tours by Jessye Norman and Deborah Voigt, then you’re no stranger to the vagaries of casting in opera. Zachary Woolf of the New York Times takes a closer look: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/arts/music/karita-mattila-and-peter-gelb-on-cancellations.html?ref=music