The new look Australian String Quartet’s Sydney concert reviewed:
The Guardian’s Tom Service asks if Stephen Sondheim might be our greatest composer:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2012/mar/16/sondheim-sweeney-todd-music-theatre
Acacia Quartet first violinist Lisa Stewart talks about her double life as a popular illustrator.
The nominations for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards are out! Congratulations to the Australian conductor Dr Nicholas Milton who conducts 25-year-old German pianist Joseph Moog with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern in a recording nominated for the Best Classical Instrumental Solo. The recording of piano concertos by Grieg and Moszkowski is on the Onyx Classics label. Nicholas…
Prize-winning author, illustrator and composer Matt Ottley’s latest creation ‘The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness’ is a powerful, large-scale, multi-modal project weaving together the worlds of literature, music and visual art in the poignant story of one boy’s journey into mental illness.
Opera Australia’s new production of Bizet’s Orientalist opera The Pearlfishers opened in the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House last week. It is an exotic looking production! Scroll down to see all ten images. Runs till March 12. 2016. Image credits Keith Saunders, courtesy Opera Australia
Reviews of Opera Australia’s Ring adventure in Melbourne with the performance of the first in the cycle Das Rheingold: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/feathers-and-cossies-the-ring-comes-full-cycle/story-e6frg8n6-1226762861675 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/stage/neil-armfields-das-rheingold-from-wagners-ring-cycle-is-utterly-human/story-fn9d344c-1226763200219 Murray Black reviews Vladimir Ashkenazy’s tenure in The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/were-all-the-better-for-ashkenazys-sso-tour/story-e6frg8n6-1226762785028 A Polish pianist recreates the piano designed by Leonardo da Vinci: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/leonardo-da-vincis-wacky-piano-is-heard-for-the-first-time-after-500-years-20131118-2xpqs.html Mariss Jansons – ‘the greatest conductor on earth’: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/sound-and-style-20131114-2xhk2.html
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the premiere of one of the world’s most loved comic operas, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, on Saturday 20 February, Opera Australia is offering a youth (under 30) discount of 200 tickets for 200 cents, to selected performances in the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House. The…