This Saturday SBS TV screens Sir David McVicar’s production of Francesco Cilea’s opera Adriana Lecouvreur .
The Covent Garden production stars Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Olga Borodina and Alessandro Corbelli with Sir Mark Elder conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House.
This screening will be of special interest to Sydney audiences who will be entertained in 2014 by a McVicar directed Opera Australia production of Don Giovanni.
TaikOz promises three days of fun with thundering Odaiko and mighty taiko drumming at its School Holiday Youth Camp for budding young musicians, aged 3-16 years. TaikOz has just returned from the USA, where it was one of only 4 taiko ensembles to perform at the World Taiko Gathering in LA in July. TaikOz is…
The mysteries of quick scenery changes will be unveiled when for one performance only and for the first time, Opera Australia leaves the curtain open during the remarkable 4-minute scene change between the first two scenes in Act II of OA’s lavish production of Verdi’s La Traviata. This open curtain performance is on Tuesday 21…
Arguably, some of the most thrilling sounds in music come from the time of the Renaissance – humble and spare yet triumphant and textured, there is spectrum of aesthetics that ranges from purely vocal a capella works to richly textured polyphonic brass canzoni. This music is so ageless that some of it could pass for having…
Resonance Concerts presents The Music of Australia featuring baritone Simon Lobelson and pianists Chris Cartner and David Paterson. Like Australian culture, music comes from a wide variety of inspirational sources. The Music of Australia captures the spirit of contemporary Australian society. It mixes themes of historical reflection, personal contemplation and a great deal of fun! In these…
Sydney’s avant-garde string ensemble, the Acacia Quartet, will present an intimate take on one of the world’s best-loved Baroque piece in Vivaldi Four Seasons and a Goldfinch – the third concert of popular Live at Lunch series at The Concourse in Chatswood. Known for coupling conventional repertoire with the unorthodox, the Acacia Quartet will perform…
Eight divertimenti, ten plague choruses and a bunch of fiercely talented Year 12 students. Put them together and you have the programme for the Annual Concert to be given by students of the Conservatorium High school this weekend. Bernstein composed the 8 Divertimenti to commemorate the centenary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Stravinsky wrote Symphony…