The 2012 Sydney Eisteddfod
Keep up with all the results from the 2012 Sydney Eisteddfod:
Keep up with all the results from the 2012 Sydney Eisteddfod:
Three winners of the ARIA Fine Arts Awards were announced at the Art Gallery of New South Wales this morning. Congratulations to Sally Whitwell for Best Classical Album All Imperfect Things, The Idea of North for Best Jazz Album Smile and Joseph Tawadros for Best World Music Album Chameleons of the White Shadow. Read our review…
In an exciting new collaboration, Pinchgut Opera joins forces with Opera Australia for their Sydney Opera House debut in a pioneering and inventive move which restores baroque performance to the Joan Sutherland Opera Theatre.
The visionary composer and conductor Andre Previn has died aged 89. His diverse positions included a stint as the principal conductor of the London Symphony and as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Pittsburgh Symphony; he wrote concertos, opera, song cycles, film scores and chamber music, winning four Oscars and numerous other nominations….
The Flinders Quartet (FQ) invites applications from composers to submit a short work for string quartet to be workshopped by the members of the quartet and composition mentor, Brenton Broadstock, resulting in a professionally recorded live performance. Submissions close on 7 September 2016 (5pm AEST), and will be reviewed by Flinders Quartet and a small panel…
Verdi’s Luisa Miller opened in the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House last night – and the audience loved it! A co-production between Opera Australia and Opera Lausanne, it is visually surreal and abstract with standout singing. Scroll down to see all 8 images from the production. Performances till February 29. Images courtesy Opera…
The incomparable American soprano Renée Fleming’s first-ever holiday album celebrates the iconic Christmas season in New York City. From the Rockefeller Center to the holiday windows lining Fifth Avenue, the essence of the city at the most wonderful time of year is captured on her new CD Christmas in New York. Her guests on this 14…