National Review of Opera Companies Announced
Funding of $32 million for the nation’s opera companies is to come under the scrutiny of a three person panel.
Read the feature in The Australian
Funding of $32 million for the nation’s opera companies is to come under the scrutiny of a three person panel.
Read the feature in The Australian
The New Music Network is calling for proposals for the 2014 New Music Mini Series. The New Music Mini Series is a five-part series of concert events that promote or comprise performances by artists and ensembles of ‘the next generation’ within contemporary art music practice. This includes individuals and/or ensembles which are starting out…
Mezzo-soprano Deborah Humble is one of Australia’s most successful international artists. Based in Hamburg, her engagements in 2015 include Erda in Das Rheingold with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Erda in Siegfried at Boston Symphony Hall, her debut as Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde in Mexico City, Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle in Melbourne, Elgar’s Sea Pictures at the Britannia in…
Today, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra announces the continuation of Simone Young’s tenure as its Chief Conductor until the end of 2026. Young, who commenced this role in 2022, is only the third Chief Conductor and the first woman to hold the position in the orchestra’s 87 year history.
Flowers Still Bloom is a new album from guitarist, composer and creative educator, Michelle Nelson. It is the result of her experiences in the midst of Melbourne’s first lockdown, encountering what so many other musicians did – the lack of work and isolation. It gave her the time and space to contemplate life as we…
Cellist Rachel Scott is presenting her series ‘Bach in the Dark’ again in 2012. In these unusual concerts she invites her audience to the crypt of St James’ Church in King Street Sydney for programmes of music that are founded in the compositions of the great JS Bach, but which she then takes to another…
More reasons to celebrate Rossini’s birth anniversary: Petite Messe Solennelle conducted by Riccardo Chailly Joyce DiDonato performing “Tanti affetti”, from Donna del Lago. William Tell Overture Riccardo Muti conducts the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala.