Anne Sofie von Otter in Sydney

The world fanous mezzo-soprano performs in Sydney with the SSO this week:

The world fanous mezzo-soprano performs in Sydney with the SSO this week:
Australian pianist and contemporary music specialist, Zubin Kanga performs the Australian premiere of Piano Ex Machina, a program of ground-breaking works for piano and multimedia by some of the hottest composers from around the world. Following his acclaimed 2015 Dark Twin and 2016 Cyborg Pianist tours, the award-winning London-based Kanga returns to Australia this April to perform…
Italian violinist and conductor Riccardo Minasi returns to perform with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra with a programme of rare music that has largely been unheard for centuries, and certainly never before played in Australia. Riccardo is one of the world’s most captivating baroque violin virtuosos and conductors. Born in Rome in 1978, he has performed both as…
The Australian Chamber Orchestra returns to live performance at the City Recital Hall for the first series of concerts since COVID-19 interrupted our lives six months ago. Performances will run from 5-11 September and comprise Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in D major and Schoenberg’s masterpiece, Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) with no interval. The ACO announced that…
The Omega Ensemble presents a double feast of quartets and quintets of grand masterpieces, watershed moments and world premieres with Artistic Director David Rowden, violinists Natsuko Yoshimoto and Ike See, violist Neil Thompson and cellist Paul Stender. This programme of two quartets and two quintets features The Lark string quartet by Haydn, is a perfect representative of the…
Mazda Opera in the Domain in 2020 will showcase some of Australia’s most fabulous opera singers, including Stacey Alleaume, Anna Dowsley, Natalie Aroyan, José Carbó and Simon Kim with the Opera Australia Orchestra conducted by Brian Castles-Onion. A favourite on the Sydney event calendar, the free concert attracts over 15,000 people each year for a…
Drumming ensemble TaikOz presents The Spirit Dancer, in which they will be joined by esteemed guests Iwasaki Onikenbai Hozonkai who will perform the dazzlingly vibrant Onikenbai, a traditional Japanese Buddhist dance, the only Australian performance at Sydney’s City Recital Hall. This program showcases TaikOz performing a Buddhist prayer dance which pays homage to ancestral spirits at the midsummer Lantern…