Andrea Chenier Picture Gallery
Scroll down to see all four images from this acclaimed production at the Royal Opera Covent garden with Jonas Kaufmann in the title role. See the production at Palace Cinemas in Sydney. Click here for more.




Scroll down to see all four images from this acclaimed production at the Royal Opera Covent garden with Jonas Kaufmann in the title role. See the production at Palace Cinemas in Sydney. Click here for more.




Australian-Chinese violin sensation Christian Li releases his second track, ‘Fisherman’s Harvest Song’, out now on Decca Classics. To accompany the release, Christian features in a new video of footage from his recording sessions, filmed earlier this year. ‘Fisherman’s Harvest Song’ is a traditional folk tune inspired by the fisherman’s harvest in the South China Sea…
Seong-Jin Cho from South Korea has been announced as the winner of the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition recently concluded in Warsaw. The 21-year old student of Michel Béroff at the Paris Conservatoire was in a field of ten finalists drawn from 450 applicants adjudicated by Dmitri Alexeev, Martha Argerich, Philippe Entremont, Nelson Goerner, Garrick Ohlsson and chaired…
The Northside Opera Study Group, meeting in Lindfield, continues its meetings every Monday till the end of the year. Whether you are a long-term opera enthusiast or a novice who wants to learn more about the subject, NOSG invites you to share your interest in music and opera with their friendly group. Their programmes are wide and varied…
Il Trovatore is being performed in the Joan Sutherland Opera Theatre of the Sydney Opera House on selected dates until March 5th 2013. All images by Branco Gaiaca, courtesy Opera Australia.
In an overnight transformation, mezzo-soprano Milijana Nikolic has shed several decades from her persona and gone from singing the role of one doomed gypsy to another. The day after the closing performance of Il Trovatore, in which she portrayed Azucena, she was rehearsing the role of Carmen which she will sing in Handa Opera on…
The dynamics of a small music ensemble have always been intriguing – remember Vikram Seth’s 1999 novel An Equal Music? More recently movies like Quartet and A Late Quartet have revisited the theme. Zoe Knighton, cellist with the Flinders Quartet writes about her experiences in Classic Melbourne. The Flinders Quartet performs at the Utzon…