‘Carmen’ – the costumes
A sneak look at the some of the fabulous costumes by Julie Lynch –


A sneak look at the some of the fabulous costumes by Julie Lynch –


Thomas Strong, a 31-year-old tenor from New South Wales, has won the coveted Opera Foundation Australia Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship for 2014. The finals concert was held at the Eugene Goossens Hall of Sydney’s ABC studios where Strong sang Nessun Dorma from Puccini’s Turandot and Mamma, quel vino è generoso from Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana for his…
Gramophone magazine previews Lang Lang’s new CD of the piano works of Liszt. http://www.gramophone.co.uk/chart/review/liszt-my-piano-hero
Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist and conductor turns 80 in July – and to celebrate this milestone Decca is releasing his recording of the six French Suites by J S Bach, complete on a single CD, available on July. 14, 2017 The tracks: JS Bach/ French Suites [1]-[5] Suite No. 1 in D minor BWV 812 [6]-[11]…
The family of maestro Arturo Toscanini has placed hundreds of his valuable possessions on the market for auction by Sotheby’s in London on November 28th. The conductor died in New York in 1957. The items include Toscanini’s Steinway model D piano, some of his batons and documents hand written by Verdi, Wagner, Strauss and Mendelssohn. More at:…
Award-winning British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason last week released Elgar, a new album of works anchored by Elgar’s Cello Concerto – one of the best-known work in the cello repertoire which had the 100th anniversary of its first performance celebrated last year. Sheku recorded the cello concerto at Abbey Road Studios (famously opened by Elgar himself…
Lachlan Skipworth and Brett Dean have been announced as the winners of the 2016 Paul Lowin Prizes.The announcement was made in Sydney on December 6, 2016 by the Australian Music Centre in collaboration with Perpetual. A first-time Lowin finalist, the Western Australian composer Lachlan Skipworth took home the $25,000 Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize for his…