Presenting Opera In Concert
With opera companies facing financial constraints and grappling with new ways of finding funds, Gillian Moore in BBC Music Magazine looks at the merits of presenting opera in the concert hall.
With opera companies facing financial constraints and grappling with new ways of finding funds, Gillian Moore in BBC Music Magazine looks at the merits of presenting opera in the concert hall.
The Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia has announced the six finalists who will continue through to compete in the finals at the Sydney Opera House beginning on July 19 in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. They are: Kenneth Broberg (USA), Moye Chen (China), Andrey Gugnin (Russia), Jianing Kong (China), Oxana Shevchenko (Kazakhstan), Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev (Russia)….
The Australian Chamber Orchestra has just announced its 2013 season. Andreas Scholl sings Vivaldi, Barry Humphries presents music from Berlin, Martin Fröst plays Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Patricia Kopatchinskaja guest directs from the violin. There’s music by Brahms, Brett Dean, Ginastera and Rautavaara in the mix. More at: http://www.aco.com.au/buy/subscriptions?utm_source=mail2&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Announcing2013season
After 7 concerts in 12 nights Penny Durham, in The Australian takes a look at David Robertson’s inaugural tour of China with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
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…
“Music was like an extra language in our family, one we all spoke.” The world-famous cellist Steven Isserlis comes from a long line of musicians. His Russian grandfather was accepted into the Moscow Conservatoire aged just 10. Steven Isserlis talks to the New Statesman about the pleasures and pressures of coming from an intensely musical…
Composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi releases Underwater, his first new solo piano album in 20 years, now available on the Decca label.