Calming The ‘Ca-cough-ony’
Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim of the New York Times, writes about this form of ‘high-culture hooliganism’.
Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim of the New York Times, writes about this form of ‘high-culture hooliganism’.
To enter the draw for a copy of this new release by soprano Greta Bradman and Sony, email Info@soundslikesydney.com.au with ‘Grace” in the subject heading by 5 pm om Friday 2nd September. Check out our interview with Bradman and the video (link on our Videos page) to hear the CD being recorded. Tracks on the CD include Sibelius Be Still…
An engaging new work by Sydney based Australian composer Andrew Schultz has been included on a recently released album, Winter’s Warmth, by the American label, Navona. Schultz’s Falling Man, Dancing Man (opus 68) is a three-movement concerto for orchestra and solo pipe organ. It was commissioned by Symphony Australia and written and premiered in 2005…
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…
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…
Some years ago I attended a concert at the Vienna Konzerthaus. Sopranos Montserrat Caballe and her Callas look-alike daughter Monserrat Marti gave a superb rendition of solos and duets for female voices. The hall was packed; the audience brought them out – and they graciously obliged – for three encores. On the premise that one good…
Donizetti’s bel canto masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor opens in Sydney this week. The Opera Australia production has Emma Matthews in the title role with American tenor James Valenti as Edgardo and Giorgio Caoduro as Enrico. These images give an idea of the power and drama of the opera and below them, the link to a feature about the…