At 9 25 pm Sunday 20th October, ABC TV1 will screen Autopsy On a Dream – The Making of the Sydney Opera House.
‘For the first time on Australian TV, the controversial 1968 BBC film Autopsy On A Dream, thought lost for 45 years. Includes a new prologue The Dream Of Perfection to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Sydney Opera House.”
The Australian Doctors Orchestra celebrates its silver anniversary with this special fundraising event, under the baton of guest conductor Nicholas Milton and featuring soloist Slava Grigoryan playing Rodrigo’s Concerto for Guitar. The program will also include the Symphony No 10 by Shostakovich and Ravel’s Bolero. The ADO was founded 25 years ago by Dr Miklos…
Japanese/American violin star Shunske Sato will lead the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra into some rarely visited territory – historically informed Romantic music, performed on gut strings in Sato and the Romantics. Together they’ll perform music of the Romantic giants Mendelssohn (a symphony written at the age of 12), Grieg (Romantic music inspired by the Baroque) and an epic…
The Balmain Sinfonia conducted by Gary Stavrou opens its 2016 program with a program of clarinet virtuosity and symphonic joy with both an American and central European twist. Showcasing clarinetist and SSO member Francesco Celata, the concert features American Artie Shaw’s much-adored Clarinet Concerto as well the showy Czardas by Monti, Smetana’s sweeping Moldau and Dvorak’s…
Australian Chamber Orchestra Principal Violin Satu Vänskä performs Locatelli’s notoriously difficult concerto The Harmonic Labyrinth in this Saturday’s ACO HomeCast. Recorded during the 2017 ACO Soloists tour, this performance showcases Satu’s virtuosity in a fierce test of physical and mental focus. Please consider supporting the ACO and our free digital season, ACO HomeCasts, with a…
Synaethesia: Music of Colour and Mind is a two-day event is a collaboration between the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO) and the TSO chorus; Opera Australia’s artistic director, Lyndon Terracini; composer Michael Kieran Harvey; pianist Peter Hill with the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM); Tasmanian-born soprano…
Leichhardt Espresso Chorus invites you to a 2 day weekend workshop Vocal Works, a rare chance for singers to experience expert vocal tuition by three outstanding vocal professionals. The workshops offer opportunities to extend your vocal skills, revise basic principles and learn dramatic presentation with European vocal coach Manuela Ochakovski, award-winning artistic director and choral…