Scenes from Don Giovanni
All images courtesy of Opera Australia, and taken by Branco Gaica.
All images courtesy of Opera Australia, and taken by Branco Gaica.
Halcyon is relaunching First Stones 2022, its vocal writing intensive, coming up in July 2022. First Stones 2022 promises to be an unrivalled opportunity to discover more about the voice and its capabilities, something Halcyon has been living out in performance for almost twenty five years. Additionally, it is a chance to explore the collaborative…
“A great opera experience — intimate or grand, traditional or unconventional — can have a powerful effect…….. But my gut (and the global decline in opera subscriptions) tells me that when opera tries to sex itself up and compete with mega-spectacles, it loses its power to connect with audiences.” A ‘must-read’ from Lindy Hume, past…
When: Saturday 13 March, 7 pm Where: City Recital Hall, 2 Angel Place, Sydney In an exciting start to Sydney’s musical year, the Sydney Chamber Choir welcomes back its former Music Director, the award-winning composer, Paul Stanhope who will lead the choir in the world premiere performance of his Requiem, the centrepiece of a program…
Sydney Chamber Choir announces this week’s digital release, Ah! Sun-flower from Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year, a 7-part song cycle written for double choir and piano. It’s a return to the 21st century with this excerpt which is the 5th movement of the song cycle. Jonathan Dove’s music is about communicating, creating wonder…
Clear Music’s Deals of the Day this week: Thursday: Beethoven Piano Concerti, piano reductions, Bärenreiter editions. Friday: O’Leary Violin Studies bks 1 and 2 Saturday: Fauré piano music – Ballade, Barcarolles, Valses-Caprices, Bärenreiter editions Sunday: Pegler Best of Singing, Grades 1-3, 4-5. for high voice and low voice, book and CD.
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is refreshingly honest about the trend to fast-track singers to classical singing without the vital technical foundations. Click here to read The Guardian.