More of What’s in Store in “The Love of the Nightingale”




The Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO) presents a grand concert which celebrates the end of another year of marvelous music making as well as introducing its 2016 performance season. Conducted by TMO artistic director and chief conductor Sarah-Grace Williams, the final Met Concert for 2015 features young Australian virtuoso violinist Anna Da Silva Chen in one of…
Australia’s premier and longest-running early music ensemble, The Renaissance Players will perform British Beasts, Birds and Bards – a concert of English traditional and folk music from the 16th century to the 1970s – with a 20th century twist! A touch of mediæval song (ornamented with flourishes from later times) and music by the young, lusty King…
Verdi’s tragic opera of a Parisian courtesan who sacrifices all for love is vividly conveyed in Richard Eyre’s beloved staging… ‘A toast to the pleasures of life!’ – so sings Violetta Valéry, sung by Russian soprano Venera Gimadieva, one of opera’s greatest heroines, her new admirer Alfredo, Saimir Pirgu, and her party guests in the opening scene….
Chanteuse Nadia Piave and guitarist Gino Pengue perform favourite French songs, creating the best French Love Story ever – in L’Amant de Saint-Jean – a special French themed concert for Bastille Day. Together they will perform songs from cafes, galleries and musettes in Paris…Trenet, Brel, Gainsbourg, Legrand, Ferre, Aznavour, Vian and others. Tap Gallery in Surry Hills is…
The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) delves into the groundbreaking new music of three of the world’s most celebrated indie musicians, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, The National’s Bryce Dessner and Sufjan Stevens alongside the sources of their inspiration, Polish composers Karol Szymanowski, Witold Lutosławski and Krzysztof Penderecki. Throughout their two-week national tour, the ACO will perform Greenwood’s…
The Music Performance Unit at the University of New South Wales presents a free lunch hour workshop on the music of Czechoslovakia by Natalie Shea. Natalie Shea trained as a linguist, teacher, translator, singer and musicologist – all skills which she is delighted to be able to place at the service of music. She is currently…