Words then music.
A terrific read on the literary foundations of some of the greatest operas:
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/opera/greatest-stories-set-to-music-20111118-1nmas.html
A terrific read on the literary foundations of some of the greatest operas:
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/opera/greatest-stories-set-to-music-20111118-1nmas.html
Triple Grammy Award winner Hilary Hahn returns to solo Bach twenty years after her debut recording. This recording of Sonatas 1 & 2 and Partita 1, her debut on the Decca label, completes Hilary’s solo Bach recordings and was released in Australia earlier this month. The disc contains the Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor, BWV…
Deborah Humble talks with tenor Sam Sakker about his expectations from the Covent Garden Young Artist Programme. Australia’s geographical isolation has always meant that young singers have had to travel far from home seeking to broaden their musical and cultural horizons. In September this year three more Australians will join the Jette Parker Young Artists’…
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music, fondly known as “the Con” turns 100 in 2015! The iconic castle-like building with its distinctive turrets, sitting on the historical site of Sydney’s first bakery, housed Governor Macquarie’s horse stables in the 1800s and was then turned into a prolific music school in 1915. It will celebrate this historic…
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…
Tonight, Sydney’s Capitol Theatre hosted the 2014 Helpmann Awards, recognising distinguished artistic achievement and excellence in Australia’s live performance scene. SoundsLikeSydney congratulates all the nominees and the winners. Here are the winners in the Opera and Classical Music categories: Best opera The Melbourne Ring Cycle (Opera Australia) Best male performer in an opera Terje Stensvold for The…
Cellist Zoe Knighton and pianist Amir Farid present their seventh collaboration in a new recording Brahms’ Cello on the Move label with music by Johannes Brahms.