The voluptuous beauty of ‘La Traviata’
Check out these 9 glorious images from Opera Australia’s production of La Traviata which opened in Sydney this week. Images by Branco Gaica courtesy of Opera Australia
Check out these 9 glorious images from Opera Australia’s production of La Traviata which opened in Sydney this week. Images by Branco Gaica courtesy of Opera Australia
Author John E. McLennan, Ph.D., has released an new book dedicated to the ‘anatomy ‘of the violin. The Sound Post in the Violin is the result of 30 years’ research into the functions of the sound post and its history. The incomparable and distinctive sound of the violin has captivated music enthusiasts for five hundred…
Composer Elena Kats-Chernin has written a new work – a concerto for flute and orchestra and it is to premiere later this month. Called Night and Now, the concerto was commissioned by flautist Sally Walker, for whom it was written, with assistance from the Australia Council. Sally Walker revealed to SoundsLikeSydney, that she and Elena started…
The orchestra pit of the Opera Theatre in the Sydney Opera House wasn’t big enough to accommodate the 86 orchestral musicians required for Opera Australia’s present production of Korngold’s “Die tote Stadt”. Answer: take them off-site and link them to the theatre with video and acoustic technology. Matthew Westwood of The Australian has the full story: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/pits-not-up-to-it-so-piped-musics-the-go/story-fn9d2mxu-1226409545488
Grab your kids, nieces, nephews and grandchildren and check out this captivating video from the Sydney Opera House, George Meets the Orchestra in which young George talks to the gifted members of the Sydney Youth Orchestra and conductor Brian Buggy OAM, as he discovers more about instruments and decides which one he is going to…
Sir David McVicar’s production of Mozart’s opera Così fan tutte for Opera Australia hits the boards in Sydney in July. Conducted by Jonathan Darlington, it features a glittering cast which includes Nicole Car, Anna Dowsley, Taryn Fiebig, Charles Castronovo, Andrew Jones and Richard Anderson. It also completes the trilogy of Mozart-Da Ponte operas that Sir David has…
Joshua Bell leading the Academy of St Martin in the Fields played a programme of Mendelsson, Tchaikovsky and Schumann at the Sydney Opera House last night,to a packed Concert Hall, itself transformed in a veritable field of flowers. Beg, borrow or steal a ticket to tonight’s performance of Mozart – the Symphony No 5 and…