Domingo’s 137th operatic role!
At the age of 70, Placido Domingo takes yet on another new role – Rigoletto! The Australian reports on this interview with the Times of London.
At the age of 70, Placido Domingo takes yet on another new role – Rigoletto! The Australian reports on this interview with the Times of London.
This week, conductor Benjamin Northey makes his debut with Opera Australia, taking the rostrum for the company’s production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni (K527). Northey spoke to SoundsLikeSydney whilst preparing for this major undertaking – preparation which has involved rehearsing with the incoming cast, assisting Mark Wigglesworth (who conducted the opening performances), being his ‘ears’ in…
Lyndon Terracini, Artistic Director of Opera Australia delivers the 2011 Peggy Glanville-Hicks address, and held each year by the New Music Network to stimulate thought in creating and performing music in Australia. This year’s topic was Populism as Art and the Art of Populism.In his address, Terracini applies this statement to the future of opera…
Riccardo Chailly’s recording Brahms – The Symphonies with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra was named Recording of the Year and doyen of early music Sir Neville Marriner received a special Outstanding Achievement Award, at the 2014 Gramophone Awards held at St John’s Smith Square last night. Click here to read about the other winners.
Applications have opened for artists and arts and cultural organisations to tour their work
across regional NSW as part of Create NSW’s Regional Arts Touring Program.
This week, Nicole van Bruggen co-artisitic director and principal clarinet with the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (ARCO), shares her insights into her experiences with the music of Beethoven. Originally from Sydney, Nicole studied modern clarinet at the Sydney Conservatorium and won a Queen’s Trust Scholarship to continue her studies abroad. She moved to The…
Just when you thought it was time to relax in the humid and langourous hiatus between the end of 2013 concert season and the start 2014, the Sydney Festival brandishes in front of us dozens of unmissable events for all ages and tastes. Running in venues in and around Sydney from January 9th to…