Winning young performer
Saxophonist Nicholas Russoniello wins the 2011 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award.
Saxophonist Nicholas Russoniello wins the 2011 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award.
Musica Viva Australia today announced that Hywel Sims has been appointed CEO, while Anne Frankenberg will step into the newly created, Melbourne-based role of Deputy Chief Executive. Hywel Sims has been an integral member of Musica Viva’s senior management since 2014, initially as Director of Development and currently as General Manager, Victoria. The new role of Deputy…
Mozart’s Requiem at the Adelaide festival 2020. All images courtesy Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2019 © Pascal Victor SoundsLikeSydney was in the audience for the premiere season of Romeo Castellucci’s production of Mozart’s Requiem, with superstar Australian-born soprano Siobhan Stagg, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival last year. The production was a highlight of the festival and will be…
Some years ago I attended a concert at the Vienna Konzerthaus. Sopranos Montserrat Caballe and her Callas look-alike daughter Monserrat Marti gave a superb rendition of solos and duets for female voices. The hall was packed; the audience brought them out – and they graciously obliged – for three encores. On the premise that one good…
Congratulations to soprano Emma Moore from New South who has won the 2011 Marianne Mathy Award. More at: http://www.aussing.org.au/ASC_Winners.htm
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (ABO) today launches its digital music platform Brandenburg One, premiering a new series of performances on period instruments. The ensemble will present JS Bach’s unaccompanied instrumental works set against Australian native floral backdrops by award-winning Australian designer Silvana Azzi Heras, the award winning Costume and Production Designer known for her work…
Barrie Kosky will return to the Adelaide Festival in 2022 with its headline production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s fantasy opera The Golden Cockerel. The result of this collision of genius from Rimsky-Korkov and Kosky has resulted in a brilliant “Kosky-kov” production which will star British-Ukrainian bass-baritone Pavlo Hunka as the king, Russian lyric coloratura soprano Venera Gimadieva…