Melbourne Digital Concert Hall’s Sydney season presents violinist Emma Jardine with pianist Benjamin Kopp,performing form the National Art School.
Love, death, longing or just sheer beauty, the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s August concert has music to warm your heart this winter. On the programme are the ominously dramatic of overture to Verdi’s opera The Force of Destiny, (featured on the soundtrack of the classic French films, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources),…
Come along to The Opera Centre for an evening of music and a behind the scenes view of Verdi’s Don Pasquale, which will open at the Sydney Opera House on 18 July. Directed by Roger Hodgman, the versatile ensemble features the distinguished bass Conal Coad in the title role, soprano Rachelle Durkin, tenor Ji-Min Park…
After a terrific month-long season at the Chapel off Chapel in Melbourne, CDP Theatre Productions brings Souvenir: A fantasia on the life of Florence Foster Jenkins to the Zenith Theatre. Souvenir is the humorous true story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy New York society eccentric who suffered under the illusion that she was a great coloratura soprano,…
Omega Ensemble performs one of the masterpieces of the Late Romantic era, Elgar’s Cello Concerto, with acclaimed Dutch cellist Teije Hylkema, Principal Cellist of the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. Omega Ensemble is the City Recital Hall Ensemble in Residence and true to its style, its programme features diverse classical and contemporary works. David Rowden, Artistic…
This Saturday SBS TV screens Sir David McVicar’s production of Francesco Cilea’s opera Adriana Lecouvreur . The Covent Garden production stars Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Olga Borodina and Alessandro Corbelli with Sir Mark Elder conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House. This screening will be of special interest to Sydney audiences who…
There is possibly no-one better to conduct the music of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli than the man who founded the ensemble called the Gabrieli Consort. Paul McCreesh founded the Gabrieli Consort and Players, of which he remains the Artistic Director, in 1982. Since then, he has earned a reputation as one of the finest conductors…