‘Carolfest’ with Sydney University Musical Society


Andrew Chubb, the pioneering exponent of the music of Philip Glass, will celebrate the composer’s 80th birthday year with Philip Glass @ 80, a diverse range of piano works spanning 40 years, including selections from Einstein on the Beach, Etudes, The Hours, Glassworks and Metamorphosis. The concert is part of the popular Spring Series at the Independent Theatre…
The Lurline Chamber Orchestra presents an irresistible program of romantic and contemporary music featuring the music of Holst, Rachmaninov, Wiren, Bartok and two much-loved Australian composers – Tommy Tycho and Daniel Rojas. The Lurline Chamber Orchestra comprises a core of 11 string players and was founded by sisters Maria (violin) and Angela Lindsay (viola) in 2009…
Woollahra Philharmonic Orchestra’s final program for the year, All for Love is a musical ‘love-in’ with star-crossed lovers and star turns aplenty! This seductive program of rousing works, includes the passion of Bizet’s L’Arlesienne Suite and the elegance of Kuhlau’s Concerto for two French Horns. To complete the theme, Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet Suite will…
Superstar tenor Jonas Kaufmann makes his role debut as Otello in Verdi’s passionate retelling of Shakespeare’s great tragedy of jealousy, deception and murder. Soprano Maria Agresta will be his Desdemona and baritone Marco Vratogna his nemesis Iago in a new production by Olivier Award-winning director Keith Warner. A major work of the opera repertory, Otello draws on the full forces of the Orchestra of the…
Baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes joins the Choir of St James’ conducted by Warren Trevelyan-Jones for an irresistible feast of Christmas music, including works by Finzi, Vaughan Williams and John Rutter and others. Teddy Tahu Rhodes has established an international career but remains a favourite in Sydney having graced the opera, concert hall and recital stages…
Borodin’s operatic masterpiece Prince Igor, in its first Met performances since 1917, will be captured live in high-definition for the first time from the Metropolitan Opera and screened in select Australian cinemas nationally Saturday 22 March and Sunday 23 March. The new production by director Dmitri Tcherniakov in his Met debut stars Ildar Abdrazakov as…