This compelling 2 hour documentary is available on SBS at the link below until 3.15 pm on November 30th, 2013.
Centred around the creation of Britten’s last opera Death in Venice, it contains footage of Britten, his colleagues and carers at work and being interviewed, as well as the health issues that led to his death in 1976 aged 69.
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/60512323520/Brittens-Endgame
The review of Brett Dean’s award winning violin concerto: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/letters-from-the-heart-a-heavenly-treat-for-the-ears-20111205-1ofdc. …and a conversation with Anne- Sophie Mutter http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/interview-annesophie-mutter-20111201-1o7i4.html
Nimrod Borenstein (b 1969) is a composer whose music is increasingly grabbing attention – especially that of Vladimir Ashkenazy, who will conduct two of his works in 2013, one in Leicester in February (The Big Bang and Creation of the Universe, Op 52) and the other in June at the Royal Festival Hall (If you…
Until yesterday, Michael Kaiser was the President of the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts. After 29 years spent running 5 arts institutions he has sat at his last board meeting and writes that he will “breathe a sigh of relief” when he leaves the board room for the last time. Read his…
Discovered in 2004, amongst a collection of drafts and rejected sketches, the prologue to Shostakovich’s incomplete and forgotten opera Orango received its world premiere in Los Angeles in December 2012. The work was intended to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Soviet revolution but became a satire on the bourgeois Russian press. The world premiere was directed…
The first ever anthology of Gurrumul’s classics, The Gurrumul Story is set for release on September 10, 2021 by Decca on digital platforms, CD, Deluxe CD+DVD and on vinyl. The Indigenous Australian singer/songwriter Gurrumul (1971-2017) grew up on Elcho Island (Galiwin’ku), off the coast of tropical North East Arnhem land in Australia’s Northern Territory. The…
Matthew Westwood previews opera Australia’s upcoming production. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/american-dreams/story-e6frg8n6-1226089024397