The Acacia Quartet comprising violinists Lisa Stewart and Myee Clohessy, violist Stefan Duwe and cellist Anna Martin-Scrase, are joined by soprano Ayse Goknur Shanal in an exciting programme featuring contemporary Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov’s How Slow The Wind and Tenebrae, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s String Quartet K421 and a world premier by Australian composer Ross Fiddes, The Man in the Other Room for Soprano & String Quartet.
Live at Lunch’s Monet: The Flowers of War 1918, features the exquisite music of WWI French composers accompanied by big-screen projections of the masterworks of the Impressionist painter Monet. Flautist and Live at Lunch Curator, Jane Rutter leads ARIA Award-winning pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska, tenor Andrew Goodwin, cellist David Pereira and violinist Christopher Latham in…
Sopranos Alison Morgan and Jane Sheldon celebrate their long friendship with Sine & Syrinx, a program with an eye on birds which includes two world premieres. It features Australian composer Rosalind Page’s “ornithological cosmos”, Hrafnsöngvar (Ravensongs), the world premiere of a piece by electronic sound artist Lizzie Pogson, inspired by Australian bird sounds, and Passerine Miniatures, a set of very…
The Song Company celebrates the heat and raw passion of FIRE and the music that expresses it, in its latest program Vocal Fireworks which also marks the final stage of a four-year cycle of concerts themed around the elements of Earth, Water, Air and Fire. As part of its 30th Anniversary celebrations, The Song Company welcomes Danish Guest…
The Balmain Sinfonia returns to the Italian Forum with an all-Tchaikovsky programme featuring Australian cellist Georg Pedersen playing The Rococo Variations. The Russian master’s Swan Lake Suite and his First Symphony bookend the Variations – a magnificent cello concerto in the form of variations on an original theme, written in the spirit of the…
Sydney has a new opera company! With a name that reflects Sydney’s brilliant waterfront location and sophistication, Harbour City Opera has been founded to provide opportunities for the many talented emerging and established professionals on stage and behind the scenes to perform fully staged roles in exquisite, well produced operas. For their opening offering, Harbour City Opera is…
Millennial Opera is a cabaret-style show presented as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival. Featuring some of opera’s greatest arias and duets, with lyrics rewritten to reflect modern themes it will be performed by some of Sydney’s best young opera singers. Its writer, Allison Tyra says “I love the beautiful music of opera, but constantly…